Department of Public Works and Highways 11 (DPWH 11) spokesperson Dean Ortiz reported that as of November 25, 2024, the DPWH has 100% accomplished the bored piling works in the Island Garden City of Samal (IGaCoS) for the P19.32 billion Samal Island-Davao City (SIDC) Connector Project.
To date, all 74 bored piles required for the Samal Island land viaduct structure have been completed.
Ortiz said on the Davao City side, DPWH completed 51 out of 104 required bored piles.
Bored piling works are for the foundation of the land and marine viaducts as well as the main navigation bridge to connect Samal to Davao City.
“As for the civil works, part of the bored piling works for Davao City and Samal Island side began in May 2024. Bored piling works mean yung mga poste na tinitirik ngayon,” he explained during Wednesdays @ Habi at Kape media forum.
Ortiz also reported that as of November 25, 2024, the civil works is already at 3.515% and the Detailed Engineering Design (DED) is already at 2.944% or 97.97% complete.
All of the remaining DED plans have already been approved following the Bureau of Design (BOD) memorandum dated November 4, 2024.
Ortiz said that the pile cap construction for the Davao City side, as of November 25, 2024, is at 15.38%, or four out of 26 are already completed for the construction of the land viaduct substructure of the project.
Meanwhile, as for the right-of-way (ROW) acquisition, Ortiz said there is no problem on the part of the Samal side since all 10 of the 10 properties have already been settled or expropriated.
He said for the Davao City side, there are 52 affected properties under negotiated sale and 36 have already been paid and 16 are still in process.
As for the number of affected structures with a total of 50 on the Davao City side, 12 have already been paid and 38 are still being processed.
“Meaning, we are slowly getting there since we cannot fully implement the project if we have not settled these concerns of ROW issues. The target timeline to perfect the negotiated claims is during the first quarter of next year,” he said.
Ortiz explained that expropriation cases that are in process have already been filed at the concerned Regional Trial Courts (RTCs).
“As for the craneway, yung ginagawa natin na akala ng iba tulay na yung nandun na structure, its only the crane way yung dadaanan ng mga equipment and the construction of the temporary steel bridge is already completed,” he said.
The craneway will be used to transport materials needed for the construction of the bridge.
Ortiz said the SIDC project began construction early this year and is scheduled to be completed on September 27, 2028.
The SIDC Project features a four-lane (two lanes in each direction) extradosed bridge with a total length of 4.01 kilometers, a main span of 275 meters, and a vertical navigation clearance of 47 meters across the Pakiputan Strait. The marine crossing is approximately 1.62 kilometers long with a seabed depth of 40 meters, supported by two pylons standing 73 meters above sea level.
