ZAMBOANGA CITY: Mayor
Maria Isabelle Climaco has lifted the suspension order on the construction of
housing units at the Lustre Homeowners Subdivision in Brgy Sta. Catalina,
reports reaching The Philippine Preview said.
The project is under
the so-called Z3R or Zamboanga City Roadmap to Recovery and Reconstruction.
Climaco said she
ordered the resumption of construction work after the National Housing
Authority (NHA) and the developers guaranteed to act in accordance with a list
of recommendations to replace the substandard transitory findings of the city
hall.
On top of the
recommendations is for the NHA to get the appropriate permits for the
implementation of the project.
The NHA promised to get
proper permits for the implementation of the project while contractor Billray
Construction also agreed to retrofit 51 units being built to improve its
durability.
The report said that Climaco
wanted the contractor to submit an affidavit of undertaking, assuming full
responsibility in case the employed procedures to strengthen the units still
result in failure of the structures.
It was learned that Billray
Construction agreed to reconstruct the housing units that collapsed and were
demolished and those that were assessed to be beyond repair.
The suspension of the
construction came after discovery of the use of substandard construction
materials as residents in the area complained of seeing cracks on the housing
walls and the poor quality of the construction.
The project is intended to residents in the area,
whose houses were destroyed during the MNLF siege last September.