The Davao City-based construction firm Ulticon Builders Incorporated, a Quadruple A licensed Contractor company in the Philippines, spearheaded by its Founder and President, Mr. Carlos “Charlie” Gonzalez, whose projects are managed by UBI’s Authorized Management Officer (AMO) Carlos Miguel Gonzalez of Davao, has decades of reputable experience as a contractor and is multi-awarded for its management and quality standards. Today, Ulticon projects are yet to embark on a new undertaking from the Build-Build-Build program of the Duterte Administration and working together with other known foreign construction companies with this project here in our country.
Under Duterte’s ambitious Build-Build-Build project, it was officially signed on November 19, 2020, a joint venture project led by Shimizu Corporation, an architectural, civil engineering, and general contracting firm that has annual sales of around US$15 billion. For years it has been globally recognized as one of the top five contractors in Japan and included in the top twenty in the world. The contract agreement for the Davao City Bypass Construction with the Department of Public Works and Highways after a meticulous negotiation commenced in March 2020.
The launch for the construction of the Davao City Bypass Construction Project (DCBCP) was attended by DPWH Acting Secretary Roger Mercado, Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Kazuhiko Koshikawa, DPWH Undersecretary for Upmo Operations, and Chief Implementer of Flagship Projects under Build, Build, Build (BBB) Program Emil K. Sadain, and Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) Chief Representative Eigo Azukizawa.
The joint venture project is composed of three companies, which are Shimizu Corporation, Takenaka Civil Engineering & Construction Co, Ltd., and our very own Davao local Ulticon Builders Incorporated. As the lead contractor awarded to Shimizu Corporation, they will be accountable for the 10.7 km section, which is aligned to the midway portion of the Davao City bypass. This length of the bypass includes 2.3 km-long tunnels with a height of 8 meters, a width of 10 meters, and an excavation section about 80 square meters deep. On top of that, the bypass project also consists of five bridges in different locations, totaling 900m in length; and a 7.9km long 2×2 lane road with 6.7m wide each constructed by cutting and filling.
The construction period is roughly estimated to be about 37 months, Ulticon will be responsible for the earthworks and bridge constructions, while Shimizu and Takenaka will be in charge of the tunnel construction. The Davao City Bypass Construction Project was designed to have a free flow speed for vehicles; to enhance the management of transportation of information from one place to another here in Mindanao which hugely contributes to the country’s economic development; and to diminish traffic congestion. As soon as the 30km long bypass connecting Sirawan in southern Davao City through Indangan in central Davao City is completed, the calculated travel time between the two regions will be halved from one hour 45 minutes to 50 minutes.
DPWH Undersecretary for Upmo Operations and Chief Implementer of Flagship Projects under Build, Build, Build (BBB) Program Emil K. Sadain, said that “the tunnel project will soon be the first-ever long-distance mountain tunnel in the Philippines and was designed by Japanese experts to have better seismic resilience.” Furthermore, according to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the contract package costing P13.23 billion has an estimated completion date of January 2024.
Photo from https://www.shimz.co.jp/en/company/about/news-release/2020/2020037.html
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