Labella orders having rainwater catchments in establishments

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 11/21/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella has ordered the implementation of a 13-year-old ordinance on rainwater conservation that would entail all establishments to have rainwater catchments. The mayor met with the city’s Water Advisory…

Labella tells OBO to issue CDO vs owner of collapsed housing project wall in Brgy Bacayan

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/12/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella has directed the Office of the Building Official (OBO) to issue a cease and desist order against the owner of a housing development project in Sitio Sugarlandia, Barangay…

City Council to OBO: Probe Tisa construction site riprap collapse

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/10/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Cebu City Council wants the the Office of the Building Official (OBO) and the City Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Office (CDRRMO) to conduct an investigation on the collapse of the riprap…

OBO to barangays: Help us apprehend illegal structures

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/23/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Cebu City Office of the Building Official (OBO) urged barangay officials to help them identify, apprehend, and order the closure of illegal structures in their jurisdictions. Illegal structures are those structures built without a…

OBO: Structural engineers want suspension of hotel construction in Capitol Site lifted

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/22/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines —The construction of a 13-storey hotel and commercial building at the corner Don Gil Garcia and J. Llorente Streets in Barangay Capitol Site in Cebu City may soon be allowed to continue. This after…

Contractors of condotel construction in Kamputhaw ask pull out test to be moved

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/22/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines —The Cebu City Office of the Building Official (OBO) revealed that the contractors of the condotel construction, which caused the collapse of the back portion of the Juanita Building in Gorordo Street in Barangay…

OBO orders mitigation measures in Kamputhaw condotel construction

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/09/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines –The Cebu City Office of the Building Official (OBO) said that the contractors of an ongoing construction of a condominium-hotel (condotel) in Barangay Kamputhaw in Cebu City promised to put up mitigation measures in…

OBO issues work suspension order vs two projects near Juanita Bldg

Irene R. Sino Cruz 08/05/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Office of the Building Official (OBO) has issued separate suspension orders against the construction works of two high-rise projects beside the Juanita Bldg that is located at the corner of Escario Street and Gorordo…

Cebu City OBO vows faster processing of building permits

Irene R. Sino Cruz 07/22/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Cebu City Office of the Building Official (OBO) will make sure to process building permit applications the shortest possible time with the use of the OBO Information System (IS) version 2. Architect Florante Catalan, the…

Ceby City OBO suspends contractor’s operation after bunkhouse collapse

Ador Mayol, Nestle Semilla 03/06/2018

  Engr. Yosefa Ylanan, head of the Office of the Building Official (OBO) in Cebu City, immediately ordered the suspension of all projects undertaken by J.E. Abraham C. Lee Construction and Devleopment Inc. following the collapse of…

City dads ask OBO, BFP to inspection commercial establishments

Nestle L. Semilla 01/23/2018

The Cebu City Council passed on Tuesday a resolution by Councilor Jerry Guardo calling for a mandatory inspection of all commercial establishments in the city. The approved resolution directs the Office of the Building Officials (OBO) and…

‘Cebu City has 770 sinkholes’

Inna Gian Mejia, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 07/07/2017

There are at least 770 sinkholes in “urban” Cebu City. This is according to a study conducted by the Mines and Geo-Sciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-7). The MGB yesterday met…

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