23/09/2025
Office of the Municipal Engineer and Building Official attends Seminar โ Workshop on the National Building Code of the Philippines (PD 1096)
Last August 18-22, 2025, the Philippine Association of Building Officials, Inc. (PABO) in partnership with DPWH and NBCDO conducted a seminar-workshop on the NBCP held at Boracay Island, Malay, Aklan. The seminar encompasses key topics on the enforcement of NBCP.
Speakers reiterated that codes are mandatory requirement while standards are best practices in the industry and they are also referred in the Codes to set the minimum requirements for the design of systems, either structural, mechanical, electrical and etc. The National Building Code and the Fire Code or any code may have requirements that are not the same, but the most stringent requirement should apply.
The 5-day seminar ended with a 50-item examination which summarizes key points including actual problems in the enforcement of the NBCP.