Negros business groups hold first construction forum
BACOLOD CITY -- Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) along with Negros Japan Human Resource Exchange Association Inc. (NJHRRAI) and Negros Occidental Business Development Center (NOBDC) organized last Saturday a construction forum with the theme "Technical Skills Development and Exchange".
MBCCI President Roberto Montelibano said the main objective of the construction forum is to strengthen the foundation of the "Train and Earn Livelihood Program" by sending more construction trainees to Japan and to share to the Filipinos insights of Japanese Construction, its technology, work ethics of the Japanese Construction and strengthen the bond of the Philippine-Japan Construction Exchange Program in Negros Occidental.
Said forum was attended by at least 20 Japanese contractors led by Takeshi Nakamura of Ohbayashi Construction and Takeniri Nakahata of Multi Builders Corporation.
Nakamura, one of the project executives designated in Tokyo area has been one of the executives of major contractors who initiated the encouragement to other related contractors in Japan to support the technical skills development exchange program between Negros Occidental and Japan. He came to the Philippines in 2006 for a leisure trip, however he focused his sightseeing in the construction sites and facades around Cebu and Manila.
Nakamura as main speaker of the event presents to the participants his great construction work in Japan including 32 sky scrapper buildings and other major projects constructed with the huge number of foreign construction trainees including Filipinos. Nakamura has high praises for the first batch of the Negrense trainees that he has met in a jobsite.
He said that he has high regards for these trainees for being tough, hardworking and cheerful people. He hopes that there will be more Filipinos to be accepted in Japan as trainees who would be trained under Ohbayashi construction and other Major contractors, so that the skills of the Filipinos will be upgraded and the technology of Japan will be shared by the Filipinos.
Jose Maria Zayco Vice President of the MBCCI external affairs thanked the Japanese for their help and support to our fellow Negrenses. He said that this will create more job opportunities and will uplift the lives of all skilled workers who undergoes this rigid training through this program.