QC orders retrofitting of city-owned buildings

THE Quezon City Council passed an ordinance mandating the seismic (villages) in empowers the City Engineering Department to identify potentially- hazardous buildings. The ordinance also covers wood-frame structures constructed prior to the

The city council said buildings should be strengthened to reduce the damage and toll on human lives should a strong

- pleted within four years after the adoption of the ordinance. For six years.

- those occupied by less than a hundred persons.

Mayor Herbert Bautista in January signed the ordinance principally authored by Councilor Gian

The ordinance mandates the city engineer, Environmental Protection and Waste Manage - ment Department and the City Department to coordinate with the Philippine Institute of Vol

Bautista underscored the need for administrators of all government buildings to assess the disaster resilient.