Monday, March 18, 2019

Sotto, senators lead groundbreaking for new Senate building

Senate President Vicente Sotto III and 10 other senators led the groundbreaking ceremony on Monday for the P8.9-billion new Senate building in Taguig City.

Also present were Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri, Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto, Senators Panfilo Lacson, Sherwin Gatchalian, Nancy Binay, Loren Legarda, Joel Villanueva, Juan Edgardo Angara, and Gregorio Honasan.


Bases Conversion and Development Authority president Vince Dizon, Philippine Navy Flag Officer-in-Command Vice Admiral Robert Empedrad, and other government officials were also in attendance.




Based on the Department of Public Works and Highways evaluation, the construction of the new Senate building will take 40 months, starting this 2019 until 2022.

Architectural firm AECOM Philippines was declared the winner after review and evaluation conducted by the Technical Evaluation Committee, BCDA officials, senators of the 17th Congress, and the Senate community.

AECOM will have the opportunity to undertake the detailed architectural design of the project upon successful selection of the design and build contractor by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for the development of the new Senate building.

Lacson earlier said the DPWH will oversee the construction of the new Senate building, and will conduct the public bidding for the Detailed Architectural and Engineering Design and Construction Package.

Through a survey conducted within the Senate community on September 19, 2017 and the adoption of Resolution 293, filed by Gatchalian, an 18,320 square meter parcel of land owned by the BCDA, located at the Navy Village in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig, was chosen as the site for the construction of the new Senate building.

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