Capiz residents benefit from Pacific Partnership 2015 projects

From the Philippine Information Agency (Jul 22): Capiz residents benefit from Pacific Partnership 2015 projects

Capiz residents are grateful for the new school buildings and a health facility built through the efforts of the Pacific Partnership 2015.

One of the humanitarian and civic engagements by the United States Pacific Fleet humanitarian and civic mission in the Philippines, particularly in Capiz, is their engineering civic action program.

Two schools in the province, particularly the Basiao Elementary School in Ivisan town and the Roxas City School for Philippine Craftsmen in Lanot, Roxas City as well as the Talon Health Center in Roxas City were chosen as the areas for engineering works.

The super typhoon-damaged 2-classroom buildings in Basiao Elementary School will be replaced with new roofing which will include light weight steel trusses and purlins.
Additional repairs will include a fiber reinforced ceiling, new windows, new steel doors, and electrical upgrades as required.

Painting of all the interior and exterior surfaces will likewise as part of the engineering work, which project has an estimated cost of $30,000 USD.

One new concrete and hollow block  two-classroom building in the Roxas City School for Philippine Craftsmen will likewise be constructed with an estimated project cost of $78,000 USD.

Included in the said engineering work for the construction of the building is the prefabricated steel truss roof and sheet metal roofing, interior lighting, fans, and electrical outlets, four attached toilets and interior and exterior surface painting.

According to Philippine Army 1Lt. Krystle Rose Abay, Task Force Panay Action Officer for the Pacific Partnership 2015, a new concrete barangay health center in Talon with an estimated project cost of $38,000 USD is in consonance with the design of the Department of Health.

Abay, during her briefing, said that the new building will be made of prefabricated steel truss roof and sheet metal roofing, with  interior lighting, fans, and electrical outlets, with its interior and exterior surfaces fully painted.

She added that the new health center will include one restroom and a delivery room.
The engineering works, she said, has started in the middle of June  in partnership with the Philippine Army.

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