Department of Public Works and Highways

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Department of Public Works and Highways

Kagawaran ng mga Pagawain at Lansangang Bayan
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DPWH building
Department overview
Formed	June 23, 1898; 126 years ago (1898-06-23) (under the First Republic) January 30, 1981; 43 years ago (1981-01-30) (present form)
Headquarters	Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila
Annual budget	₱718.4 billion (2023) [1]
Department executives	Manuel Bonoan, Secretary Carlos G. Mutuc, Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary and Undersecretary for Special Concerns
Website	www.dpwh.gov.ph

The Department of Public Works and Highways (Filipino: Kagawaran ng mga Pagawain at Lansangang Bayan), abbreviated as DPWH, is the executive department of the Philippine government solely vested with the mandate to “be the State's engineering and construction arm” and, as such, “tasked to carry out the policy” of the State to “maintain an engineering and construction arm and continuously develop its technology, for the purposes of ensuring the safety of all infrastructure facilities and securing for all public works and highways the highest efficiency and the most appropriate quality in construction” and responsible for “(t)he planning, design, construction and maintenance of infrastructure facilities, especially national highways, flood control and water resources development systems, and other public works in accordance with national development objectives,” provided that, the exercise of which “shall be decentralized to the fullest extent feasible.” ^[2]