Topic: Background/History & Development of the equipment services, and one hundred eighteen

Country’s DPWH (118) district engineering offices.

Course & Section: CE 16.1 B3

DPWH Projects

DPWH Background

- DPWH stands for the “Department of Public Budget → Planning/ Design →Construction → Maintenance
Works and Highways”
- Executive department of Philippine government;
solely vested on the mandate “to be the State’s 1. Bridges
engineering and construction arm” 2. Highways
- It is “tasked to carry out the policy” of the State; Primary roads
“maintain an engineering and construction arm 3. Flood control
and continuously develop its technology, for the 4. Roads
purposes of ensuring safety of all infrastructure Valencia bypass
facilities and securing for all public works and Malaybalay bypass
Damay-Calabugao
highways the highest efficiency and the most
Farm-to-Market Roads
appropriate quality in construction” 5. Buildings
- Responsible for “the planning, design, School buildings
construction and maintenance of infrastructure Multipurpose buildings
facilities, especially national highways, flood Police Stations
control and water resources development 6. Maintenance
systems, and other public works in accordance 7. Disaster Response
with national development objectives”, provided
that exercise of which “shall be decentralized to
the fullest extent feasible” DPWH and other Agencies

DENR Department of Environment and Natural

Resources
1 It underwent a long process of evolution. NEDA National Economic and Development Authority
2 Dates back at the time of Spanish colonial era DTI Department of Trade and Industry
3 Emerged from embryonic form in 1565 when DOE Department of Energy
DBM Department of Budget and Management
first settlement roads were constructed

Roads at this time were constructed by

forced labor.

4 Spain was in its expansion program; it was

resorted to a policy of attraction by way of public
works construction
5 The King of Spain designated the Spanish
Governor General in the country as Chief of
Public Works assisted by “Junta Consultiva”
through a Royal degree in 1867
6 In 1868, the Bureau of Public Works and
Highways and Bureau of Communications and
Transportation were organized under a civil
engineer known as “Director General”
7 After a long process of evolution, by virtue of
Executive Order No. 124, dated January 30,
1987, the agency is now known as the
Department of Public Works and Highways
(DPWH)
8 It has five (5) bureaus, six (6) services, sixteen
(16) regional offices, twenty-four (24) project
management offices, sixteen (16) regional
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