Davao contractures continue to train

A FIRM commitment by construction industry leaders in Davao City to Train, Train, Train In photo, Davao-based PCA master trainers (from left to right) Wilfredo Guerzon Jr., Carlito Cogal, and Ramon Allado at the first Pambansang Treyners ng Konstruksyon Program in Davao City last May 2019.

With the massive government infrastructure program “Build, Build, Build”, and with the property sector remaining to be

robust, the Davao Constructors Association Center, Inc. (DCACI) is dealing with the issue of shortage of construction workers by training, not just for skills upgrading, but more importantly in increasing productivity. As the local chapter of the Philippine Constructors Association (PCA), DCACI has been offering the PCA Construction Supervisors Training Program (CSTP) since last year in partnership with the PCA Foundation and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). According to PCA Foundation program director Anthony Mariano, DCACI has so far graduated and empowered 50 construction supervisors, and will be graduating another 50 this February. At a ratio of one supervisor to 50 workers, the one hundred supervisors will be able to impact the productivity of 5,000 workers, Mariano adds. During the graduation of the first batch of supervisors from PCA-DCACI member firms who completed the program at Allado Construction in Davao City last November, PCA executive director Barry Paulino said that “we have just started.” PCA and DCACI targets to train and empower some 800 Construction Site and Trade supervisors in Mindanao this year. To sustain this, PCA and DCACI started this week the training of the next batch of its Pambansang Treyners ng Konstruksyon that will bring to a total of 50 Davaobased trainers before the quarter ends. “We are planting trainers to ensure our industry’ sustainability,” Paulino adds.