CEBU City Mayor Nestor Archival will hire experts to prepare as-built plans for the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC), a key step in completing the long-delayed hospital.
As-built plans, or record drawings, show the actual, as-constructed state of a building. Archival said these are essential to assess the 10-story CCMC, which has seen at least four contractors over more than 10 years.
“The next contractor must know where to connect and what has been done,” Archival said in Cebuano during an interview with Beyond the Headlines, SunStar Cebu’s online news and commentary program on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025.
Archival said the City will tap professionals in electrical, mechanical, civil, structural and architectural fields to produce the plans.
The task, called baselining, should have been done by the City Engineering Office. But leadership changes disrupted the process, he said.
Incomplete plans
Archival halted civil works on the latest phase after finding the plans incomplete. “These are not true as-built plans,” he said, adding the documents will determine the project’s current state and missing components.
On July 28, Archival said Dakay Construction must submit the required plans before it can resume its work on CCMC.
Dakay Construction won the P700-million Phase 5 contract in December 2024 under then mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia. The deal was signed a few days before Archival’s administration took over, after Garcia lost in the May 2025 elections.
Phase 5 covers interior partitions for the third to fifth floors and must be finished in 240 days. Only three floors of the planned 10-story hospital are operational. The fourth to seventh floors lack partitions; the top three floors remain unbuilt.
The City has spent P1.138 billion on CCMC since 2014, including P566 million for Phase 1, P36 million for Phase 1.1, P299 million for Phase 2, P99 million for Phase 3 and P136 million for a P916-million Phase 4 contract.
Phase 5’s scope was originally part of Phase 4, awarded to M.E. Sicat Construction, whose contract was terminated in November 2022 due to delays.
The original two-story CCMC was damaged in the 2013 earthquake and demolished. The new facility partially opened in December 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. / EHP