{"id":2377,"date":"2020-11-04T10:41:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T10:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2020-11-04T10:41:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T10:41:05","slug":"dpwh-opens-new-mountain-bypass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=2377","title":{"rendered":"DPWH Opens New Mountain Bypass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Department of Public Works and Highways takes the Davao City Bypass Road Project to the next phase to build a 2.3kilometer mountain pass at the cost of $274 million approximately.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A consortium of Shimizu Corporation, Ulticon Builders, and Takenaka Civil Engineering &amp; Construction was awarded the contract on Oct. 29th to finish the project within three years timeframe, expanding a link between the Barangays of Sirawan and J.P. Laurel in Panabo City. The construction of the bypass section in Davao&#8217;s Magtuod district will include tunneling through mountains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)<\/em>, cooperating with <em>DPWH<\/em>, claimed high-tech tunneling technologies would be applied to deliver the project. Upon completion, the bypass will improve the transport of goods as well as commutes, traffic decongestion, and boost the agro-based industry in the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <em>JICA<\/em> plays a vital role in the project funding <em>&#8220;financing requirements, including the detailed engineering design, construction supervision, and capacity development components,&#8221;<\/em> technical assistance in addition to developing the project idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Public Works and Highways takes the Davao City Bypass Road Project to the next phase to build a 2.3kilometer mountain pass at the cost of $274 million approximately. A consortium of Shimizu Corporation, Ulticon Builders, and Takenaka Civil Engineering &amp; Construction was awarded the contract on Oct. 29th to finish the project within three years timeframe, expanding a link between the Barangays of Sirawan and J.P. Laurel in Panabo City. The construction of the bypass section in Davao&#8217;s Magtuod district will include tunneling through mountains. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), cooperating with DPWH, claimed high-tech tunneling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[133,134,135,136,82,102,47],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project-show-case","tag-congestion","tag-davao","tag-dpwh","tag-jica","tag-technology","tag-transport","tag-tunneling","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}