Contractor requests city: Check repairs

The repair of  the defective  two-story school building in the mountain barangay of Toong was completed last Wednesday and may now be inspected, a representative of the building contractor said.

“Rectification works on the two-story, six-classroom school building at barangay Toong Elementary School have been successfully completed as of July 6, 2011,” Mario delos Reyes Jr. said in a letter dated July 7 to  Cebu City Department of Engineering and Public Works (DEPW) head Kenneth Carmelita Enriquez.

Reyes asked for an  inspection by the DEPW and their structural consultant.

Cracks were found on the second-story floor of the school building a year after its occupancy while its first floor ceiling sagged.

Engineer June Nadine Sison, head of the DEPW’s construction division, told Cebu Daily News that DEPW personnel and engineer Ariel dela Cruz would be visiting barangay Toong,  10 kilometers east of  City Hall, to conduct an inspection.

“We have to check the works done and do some testing to see how stable the building is and gauge the correctness of their work,” she said.

DEPW will test if the building can  accommodate its supposed load.

“If it fails, we will once again ask the contractor to redo the work at their own expense,” she said.

Sison said Vice Mayor Joy Augustus Young gave the same instruction in a meeting  yesterday morning.

Sison said  school officials should  coordinate with her office if they notice delays in any construction projects.

The contractors normally report to her office and the Department of Education.

MSDLR told Sison their construction workers left the school to get more supplies. order to get more supplies from their stockyard.

The epoxy which they used to strengthen the second floor was from Manila, she said.