CHALLENGES AND ADVENTURES IN SEISMIC AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

SCRAP THE CPD LAW (R. A. 10912)!   Republic Act 10912 (CPD Act of 2016) authored by former Senator Antonio Trillanes and implemented since July 1, 2017 has created problems for thousands of practicing engineers and other professionals who could not renew their licenses without going through tons of credit units of seminars, costing thousands of pesos. The process of renewing licenses becomes more bureaucratic and unnecessarily regulative. It’s repressive, to say the least, and very inconvenient and burdensome especially to freelance professionals. After barely a year of implementation, complaints flooded online fora and social media. Later, two online surveys participated by nearly a quarter of a million professionals resulted in 92.6 percent agreed to abolish the CPD Law. On October 11, 2018, Senator Ralph Recto filed SB No. 2073, seeking to repeal RA No. 10912. In Congress, HB No. 7171 was also filed by Party-list representatives seeking the same objective. Nearly two year