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00:00President Bongbong Marcos said that he is responsible for the wrong design of the Cabagan-Santa Maria Bridge in Isabela
00:07which is the reason for the collapse of the bridge.
00:09First news, Ian Cruz.
00:14Believe me, we will find out who is responsible.
00:17The design was made on the wrong day and the fund was deducted.
00:20These are the findings of President Bongbong Marcos
00:22in his inspection of the Cabagan-Santa Maria Bridge in Isabela.
00:26It was given on February 27, less than a month after the bridge was opened.
00:30Who is responsible is basically who made the design.
00:34Because their design is poor.
00:35The funding was supposed to be, the project cost is 1.8 billion.
00:41So it was deducted under 1 billion for it to be cheap.
00:45The design is really weak.
00:47One of his findings, the materials used are wrong to support the bridge.
00:53Like what DPWH said earlier, instead of using steel, they used solid steel.
00:59This is the only suspension bridge that I have seen in the whole world that is not wired.
01:05And that is the one that provided the steel.
01:10If it is wired, it should not be provided.
01:13After the initial saving, the project cost is less than 900 million pesos.
01:18But because the design is really weak,
01:20it needs to be retrofitted.
01:21That is why the cost increased to 1.2 billion pesos.
01:25Why did it need to be refitted?
01:26When the construction started, it was already seen that it is moving, that it is weak.
01:31That is why it needs to be refitted.
01:33So the whole process is, the whole process,
01:37the construction is okay, up to specifications, what they did.
01:41But the specifications are wrong.
01:44So this is a design problem.
01:47Now, they will have to spend again because the bridge needs to be refitted.
01:51And it seems that the savings will be useless according to the President.
01:54Our savings are useless.
01:56Now, we will have to go back.
01:58We will have to spend a lot again.
02:00It is like we are building a new bridge.
02:03According to the project manager,
02:05they did a good job on the bridge approved by DPWH.
02:09There are contests for that.
02:11So you will not be able to put it there without,
02:14without going through the quality control.
02:16One of the problems is the movement of Pier 8,
02:19which is one of the posts under the bridge.
02:22But that is included in the retrofit.
02:25They reviewed it again by a third-party consultant.
02:28And they come up with the retrofitting works.
02:31It seems that there is a tilting.
02:33I cannot further explain.
02:36According to DPWH, the materials used are not substandard.
02:40As to substandard, there are tests done during construction.
02:46That is what I was told and seen.
02:49In the House of Representatives,
02:51there are resolutions calling for an investigation into the bridge.
02:55According to the President, they will find out
02:57who is responsible for the wrong design of the new Santa Maria Bridge,
03:02if it collapsed.
03:04But for now, the important thing is to recover the damaged bridge.
03:09This is the first news.
03:11Ian Cruz for GMA Integrated News.
03:14Igan, you are the first in the news.
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