San Carlos City, Neg. Occ., Launches Enviro-Blox

TITLE: San Carlos city launches ‘Enviro-Blox’

Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/

By: Press Release

Philippine Information Agency

SAN CARLOS CITY, Neg.Occ. -- February 9, 2011 -- The San Carlos city government has launched an earth-based construction material known as Interlocking Compressed Earth Block (ICEB) or the San Carlos Enviro-Blox and inaugurated its resource center called the Philippine Earth Construction Resource and Reference Center Building, recently.

The Enviro-Blox is an environment friendly construction material and is now used for wide application, mainstreaming and direct use.

Under a public, private partnership with The Julio and Florentina Ledesma Foundation Inc. as the technology provider and facilitator, 16 classrooms will be constructed as an output of the on-the-job ICEB Training Courses under its construction application and use.

This will benefit 1,135 upland public school students and teachers as direct beneficiaries or 6,810 indirect individual recipients within the upland rural communities of San Carlos.

San Carlos City Mayor Gerardo Valmayor Jr. and Vice mayor Dr. Edgardo Quisumbing led the launch.

Valmayor’s vision under the partnership and engagement is to make San Carlos City as the capital of earth construction in the Philippines showcasing the environment-friendly earth-based construction technology as a trademark of the city’s infrastructure initiatives.*(JCM/San Carlos City/CAD/PIA6,Neg.Occ.)

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