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What were the Filipino builders called during the Spanish time in the Philippines?
What were the Filipino builders called during the Spanish time in the Philippines?
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What was the name of the walled city established by the Spaniards in the Philippines?
What was the name of the walled city established by the Spaniards in the Philippines?
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What year did Miguel Lopez de Legaspi found the City of Manila?
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What is the perimeter of Fort Santiago?
What is the perimeter of Fort Santiago?
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Fort San Antonio Abad was captured by the British in 1762.
Fort San Antonio Abad was captured by the British in 1762.
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St. Augustine Church is the oldest stone church in the Philippines.
St. Augustine Church is the oldest stone church in the Philippines.
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Who donated the lot on which the San Sebastian Church was originally built?
Who donated the lot on which the San Sebastian Church was originally built?
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What material was the San Sebastian Church originally built from?
What material was the San Sebastian Church originally built from?
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What material was the present San Sebastian Church built from?
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What year were the first steel parts for the San Sebastian Church shipped to the Philippines?
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What is the name of the first bridge to be erected across the Rio del Pasig?
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What is the name given to Puente Grande after the 1863 earthquake?
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The Jones Bridge was built with a neo-classical design.
The Jones Bridge was built with a neo-classical design.
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Where were the first artesian wells built in the Philippines?
Where were the first artesian wells built in the Philippines?
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What year was the first lighthouse built in the Philippines?
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What year was the Pasig River Light House deactivated?
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What is the height of the present Pasig River Light House?
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What is the name of the first suspension bridge built in Southeast Asia?
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What year was Puente Colgante completed?
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What was the original name of Puente Colgante?
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What was the length of Puente Colgante?
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What was the business name of Jose Joaquin de Ynchausti?
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What year did Ynchausti brought his family holdings under the name Ynchausti?
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What year did the Manila-Dagupan railroad start construction?
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What year was the Manila-Dagupan railroad completed?
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Road works in the Philippines during the Spanish period were not as extensive as they were during the American colonial era.
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What was the size of the adobe stones used in road construction during the Spanish period?
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What type of pavement was used during Spanish rule, which consisted of boulders taken from river beds?
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The Organic Decree established five government departments.
The Organic Decree established five government departments.
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What year did the Organic Decree establish the Philippine Revolutionary Government?
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Who served as the first President of the Cabinet for the First Philippine Republic?
Who served as the first President of the Cabinet for the First Philippine Republic?
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Who served as the Secretary of Public Welfare, which included the transportation and communications portfolio, during the First Philippine Republic?
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What department was established under the presidency of Pedro Paterno?
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Who served as the Secretary of Public Works and Communications during the First Philippine Republic?
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What year did the US place the government works under American military engineers?
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What year was the Liceo de Manila founded?
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The Liceo de Manila was the first public school to offer an academic title for Maestro de Obras.
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What is the name of the first multi-structure in Escolta, Manila?
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The first appearance of motor vehicles in the Philippines was in 1910.
The first appearance of motor vehicles in the Philippines was in 1910.
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What is the name of the gravity dam constructed over the Marikina River?
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What year was Wawa Dam built?
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What year was the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Santo Tomas established?
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What is the name of the first professional association of architecture and surveyors in the Philippines?
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What year was the first Railroad Legislation Act passed in the Philippines?
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What year did the above-mentioned Academia merge with the Liceo to establish the Escuela de Ingeniera y Arquitectura?
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The Escuela de Ingeniera y Arquitectura ceased to operate after its first year of inception.
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What government agency was created and placed under the Department of Commerce and Police on October 26, 1905?
What government agency was created and placed under the Department of Commerce and Police on October 26, 1905?
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What year was the Metropolitan Water District founded?
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What year was the Engineers and Architects Law passed?
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What was the name of the first civil engineering organization in the Philippines?
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What is the name of the organization created by the Department of Public Works and Communications in 1912?
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What is the name given to the earliest communal irrigation systems in the Philippines?
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What year did the Philippine Society of Civil Engineers (PSCE) withdraw to form a new organization?
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What year did the Escuela close?
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What year did the Philippine government reorganize the Department of Public Works and Communications?
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What year was the Philippine Association of Civil Engineers (PACE) formed?
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What year did the Commonwealth Government of President Manuel Quezon issue Executive Order 396?
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What year did the Philippine government re-establish itself on Philippine soil after World War 2?
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What year was the Motor Vehicles Office placed under the Department of Public Works and Communications?
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What year was the Manila International Airport Authority turned over to the National Airport Corporation?
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What year were laws separating statutes between architects and engineers passed?
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What year was the Ambuklao Dam opened?
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What year was the Architects Law passed?
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What year did the DPWC get reconstituted to Department of Public Works, Transportation and Communication (DPWTC)?
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What year was the Philippine Highway Act passed?
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What year was the Bureau of Highways established?
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What year was the Civil Engineering law was further amended by Republic Act No. 1582?
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What year was the National Waterworks and Sewerage System Authority (NAWASA) created?
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What year was the first Bicol train put into operation?
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What year was the unified railroad system in the Philippines inaugurated?
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What year was the Department of Public Works and Communications renamed to the Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Communications?
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What year was the National Water Resources Board (NWRB) established?
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What year was the National Building Code (NBCP) enacted?
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What year was the first election for the president of the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE) held?
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What year was the first international convention for civil engineers was held in the Philippines?
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What year was the Magat River Multi-Purpose Project in Isabela authorized?
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What year was the Ministry of Public Works (MPW) and the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) established?
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What year was the Rural Waterworks Development Corporation (RWDC) founded?
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What year was the Magat Dam opened?
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What year was the Ministry of Public Works and Highways (MPWH) renamed to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)?
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What year was the "Civil Engineering Week" first declared?
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What year did the Board of Civil Engineering at the PRC hold its first fully computerized board examinations?
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What year were the Syllabi for the Subjects in the Civil Engineering Licensure Examinations promulgated?
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What year was the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) Modernization Act of 2000 enacted?
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What year was the Architecture Act passed?
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What year was the petition for declaratory relief, filed by the PICE to declare null and void Sections 302.3 and 302.4 of the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations, passed?
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What year did the Professional Regulation Commission stop releasing the 11th to 20th place in the Board Exam?
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What year did the Board of Civil Engineering increase the number of question in their examinations?
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What year was the Protection of Students' Right to Enroll in Review Centers Act of 2013 signed into law?
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Study Notes
Each of the following bullet points below summarises information about the history of Civil Engineering in the Philippines during Spanish time.
- The history of architecture and civil engineering in the Philippines were almost the same during Spanish rule.
- There were no Filipino civil engineers during the Spanish era. Filipino builders were called "Maestro de Obras" instead.
- The walled city of Intramuros was designed and built by Spanish architects and engineers, who were the only ones with formal academic qualifications.
- Filipino engineers were responsible for maintaining and repairing infrastructure (e.g., churches, convents, government buildings) in towns.
- Miguel Lopez de Legaspi established the City of Manila in 1571. Shortly after the city was established Spanish began building Fort Santiago.
- The start of the 18th and 19th centuries saw Filipino engineers tasked with building, maintaining and/or remodelling infrastructure.
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An quiz seo a' toirt sealladh air eachdraidh innleadaireachd shìobhalta anns na Philippines anns an àm Spàinnteach. Leigidh e seachad air an t-sìol a th' ann an 'Maestro de Obras' agus cheistean mu thogalaichean mar Intramuros agus Fort Santiago.
