Year Highlight Event/Structures Additional details/features/ Involved Persons

I. SPANISH ERA
1571 - City of Manila June 24,1571 Miguel Lopez de Legazpi
- Fort Santiago (Fuerte de Santiago)  - It was built under Spanish
Rule after the City of Manila
was established by Miguel
Lopez de Legaspi.
 Served as Headquarters and
Prison.
1577 Construction of Churches out of wood and cane.  Under a Franciscan order Spaniards
(aims to withstand
catastrophe)
1586 Circular Fort of Nuestra Senor de Guia (1st stone  Oldest Stone Fortification A Jesuit Priest Antonio Sedeno
Fortress)
1591- 1631 Fort Santiago  1591-1634 Leonardo Itturino
 Second most important
Fortress to be built out of
stone in Manila
1596-1602 St. Augustine Church  Oldest Stone Church in the Arch. Juan De Macias
Philippines
 Made with tick walks of
Corinthian and Ionic
Designs
 Was rebuilt many times.
1621 San Sebastian Church  Lot donated by Don 1. Don Bernardino Castillo
Bernardino Castillo 2. Esteban Martinez-> Genero
 Originally made of wood Palacios
(was burnt during the 3. Ambeth Ocampo
Chinese Uprising and was 4. Gustave Eiffel
destroyed by many
earthquakes.)
 Fr. Esteban Martinez
approaches Arch. Genero
Palacios to make the church
out of steel.
 The engineering technique used was
from Gustave Eiffel

Materials:
Steel- Société Anonyme des
Enterprises de Travaux Publiques in
Brussels, Belgium.

Stained Glass Windows- Henri

Oidtmann Company
1632 Puente Grande  -First bridge built in the Juan Arellano
Philippines
 -Now called Jones Bridge

1645 Manila Reconstruction  Earthquake Hit

1686 1. Artesian Wells 1. Built in Betis, Pampanga 1. Father Manuel Camanes
2. Manila Water System 2. Current: Metropolitan Waterworks 2. Fr. Juan Peguero
3. Cavite Friar Land Irrigation and Sewerage System 3. Fr. Jose Delgado
3. Constructed in Tanay, Rizal
- One of the oldest irrigation systems
in Ph.
1846 Pasig River Light House  1st Light House that was lit on Under Spanish Government
September 1, 1846 (till 1992)
 Known locally as Farola
(Spanish for Light House)
It was replaced with a simpler
lighthouse after its demolition.
1852 Puente Colgante  Term of suspension or hanging Jose Joaquin de Ynchausti
bridge
 1st suspension bridge in
Southeast Asia
 Owned by Ynchausti y
Compania
 Commissioned by JJY from
Basque Engr. Matias
Menchacatorre
 Original name was Puente de
Claveria (honoring Gov-Gen Narciso
Claveria.
1868 Bureau of Public Works and Highways (Obras Was organized under a civil Director General
Publicas) and Bureau of Communications and engineer.
Transportations (Communicationes y Meteologia)
1878-1918 Carriedo Waterworks Manila  Earthquake Hit Governor Domingo Moriones
1875  Royal Decree directing the King Alfonso XII
Office of the Inspector of
Public Works of the
Philippines to submit a
general plan for railroad in
Luzon
1876 General Plan for Railways  Network= 1,730km
 Manila to Dagupan (192km)
 The railway system was the
bridge over the great
Pampanga River and the
Tutubán Station building in
the Tondo district.
 1878, the setting up of a
public transport network
1878 Five tramways  Concession for constructing
five tramways in Manila and
its suburbs was approved.
 Main Station: San Gabriel
 Crosses: Puente de Espana
1880 - School for Maestro de Obras called Escuela  Julio Hernandez (1891), Julio Hernandez
Practica y Artes Oficios de Manila Isidro Medina (1894), Isidro Medina
Arcadio Arellano (1894) Arcadio Arellano
and Juan Carreon (1896). Juan Carreon
- Puente de Convalecencia/ Ayala Bridge  Was originally made of
wooden and trusses
1887 Manila-Dagupan RailRoad  July 31, 1887-November 24,
1892
  195.4kms

2 Types of Construction:
1. Pavement of cut Spanish
Road
- Smooth, wears rapidly
due to traffic (uses
hardstone)
2. Rubble-Stone Pavement
- Rough, Durable and
lasting
- Stones were displaced
unless it is covered with
sand or gravel
II. FIRST PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC
1898 Philippine Independence  June 12, 1898 Emilio Aguinaldo

Department of War and Public Works  Organic Decree of the

Philippine Revolutionary
Government on June 23,
1898
1899 - First Council of Government of the First  January 21, 1899-May 7,
Philippine Republic 1899
- Commucaciones y Obras Publicas  Public Works,
(Communications and Public Works Departments) Transportations, and
Communications have been
grouped into 1 department.
III. AMERICAN REGIME
1899 Management of the Public Property and Revenue  The Bureau of Engineering
and the use of a public means of transportation were was placed under the
to be conducted by the military authorities of the US supervision of American
Army) military engineers. The ports
were opened to commerce
1. Apolinario Mabini (President
of Cabinet)
2. Gracio Gonzaga (Secretary of
Public Welfare)
3. Pedro Paterno (President of
Cabinet)
4. Maximo Paterno (Secretary of
Public Works and
Communication)
Major-General Elwell S. Otis
Governor of the Philippines.
 for all foreign nations.
1900 1. Foundation of the Liceo de Manila  Private institution offering - Leon Ma. Guerrero
academic courses for
Maestro de Obras
 First private school to offer
an academic title for
Maestro de Obras.
2. Masonic Temple in Escolta, Manila  Reinforced concrete in the
first multi-structure (Grand
Lodge of the Philippines)
3. Macadam Road  Initiated by the US
Government and gained
acceptance due to an
abundant supply of stones
and gravel.
1902 1. Department of Commerce and Police  DCP gave birth to BECPW
2. Bureau of Engineering and Construction of and BACPB
Public Works
3. Bureau of Architecture and Construction of
Public Buildings

Philippine Bill of 1902 or Philippine Organic Act  Authorizing the Government

of the Philippine Islands to
provide for the needs of
commerce
1903 Academia de Arquitectura y Agrimensura de  Association of architects,
Filipinas (AIAAF) civil engineers, and
surveyors.
1904 Escuela de Ingeniera y Arquitectura  Merge of Liceo and AIAAF
which offers 5 years course
in Architecture and Civil
Engineering
1905 Bureau of Public Works  Was placed under the
Department of Commerce
and Police on October 26,
1905
1907 Escuela close

Faculty of Engineering of the University of Santo  Oldest engineering school in

Tomas the Philippines (May 18,
1907)
- Offers degree to
Master of Science in
Civil Engineering
(MSCE)
- Was patterned after
the University of
Havana in Cuba.
1908 Escuela was reorganized and reopened  3-year course for
architecture, civil
engineering, and electrical
engineering.
1909 Wawa Dam (Montalban Dam)  Gravity darn constructed
over the Marikina River in
the municipality of
Rodriguez in Rizal province,
Philippines.
 The slightly arched dam is
situated in the 360 metre
(601) high Montalban Gorge
or Wawa Gorge, a water gap
in the Sierra Madre
Mountains, and east of
Maris.
1910 Creation of the College of Engineering at the  The Board of Regents of the Mr. W.J. Colbert
University of the Philippines University of the
Philippines, in a resolution Mr. Jose F. Katigbak (1st
passed on June 3, 1910, instructor in graphics or drawing)
appointed Mr. W.J. Colbert
as acting Dean of the
College of Engineering
 First appearance of motor vehicles in the Philippine  Roads and bridges had to be
highways in 1910 kept in good condition at all
times
1911 AIAAF was dissolved  dissolved when the civil
engineers (and other
engineering profession)
withdrew to form their own
professional organization
(The Philippine Society of
Engineers), but not before it
struggled for the passage of
an Engineers and Architects
Law.
1912 Escuela was closed  This regulated the
appropriation of public
The irrigation Act of 1912 waters, investigation,
construction, operation and
maintenance of irrigation
systems, it also regulated the
appropriation of public
waters, prescribed rules on
water rights and provided for
the securing of payments for
irrigation services, from the
beneficiaries.
1913 San Miguel River Imgation System in Tarlac  1st NIS
 6000 hectares
 During World War I, all
appropriations for irrigation
was withdrawn and the
Irrigation Division was
downgraded to a section in
the Design Division of the
BPW.
1914 Communal imgation systems  Mostly located in the llocos
area of northern Philippines
 and known as the zanjera.
 The term zanjera is derived
from the Spanish term for
turnout and used locally to
refer to a co-operative
irrigation society the
function of which was to
secure a stable and reliable
supply of water for its
members. Most zanjeras
may have two or more sittios
or barrios.
18 January Construction of Roads and Public Buildings in  Under the 1st cabinet that Gov. Gen. Francis. B. Hamson
1917-03 Southern or Northern provinces compromised with Filipinos appointed Cebu governor
October Dionisio Jakosalem as Secretary
1922 of Commerce and
Communication.
1921 Metropolitan Water District
The Engineers and Architects Law (Act No. 2985)  The law created separate
Board of Examiners for civil
engineering and architecture.
They were schooled abroad
as civil engineers and
architects.
IV. COMMONWELATH GOVERNMENT
1937 Highway 54 Engr Enrique Sto. Tomas
1940 Highway 54 Now known as EDSA
V. JAPANESE OCCUPATION

VI. THIRD REPUBLIC

1948 Establishment of RA 544
1950 Establishment of RA 544

VII. MARTIAL LAW

VIII. AFTER EDSA REVOLUTION