The South Metro Manila Skyway Stage 2 Project is now 65% complete, according to official accomplishment reports as of July 25, 2010.

Despite concerns over the seeming inability of utilities companies, particularly the Meralco Electric Company, to relocate their facilities that hamper construction activities in some of the project's work areas for the slip ramps in Sucat and Alabang, Skyway Stage 2 construction still progressed from last month's 60% accomplishment. However, all efforts are being exerted to complete the Sucat ramp by October 30, 2010, earlier than the original schedule of December 2010.

The Skyway proponent, Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corporation (CMMTC), and the project's main contractor, D.M. Consunji, Inc. (DMCI), already started with finishing work on the road superstructure such as parapets, curbs and median on the concreted section of the road's main alignment. DMCI has finished concreting 134 of the required 238 spans, and has started asphalt overlay.

Meanwhile, 80 of 715 required bored piles, 149 of 175 pile caps and 241 of 275 columns had been constructed. Eighty-five of 128 required non-rotating pierheads are already completed, on top of the 95 rotating pierheads that had already been built and rotated to their final positions. One thousand four hundred eleven girders of the needed 1,809 had been fabricated; of these, 1,338 had been installed on 167 spans.

Work on the slip ramps in Sucat is also ongoing, although a few adjustments to design and alignments have to be made to the slip ramps due to additional requirements for road right-of-way for utilities location.

CMMTC and DMCI are exerting all efforts to finish Skyway Stage 2, the 6.88-kilometer elevated toll road that extends the existing Buendia-Bicutan stretch from Bicutan to Alabang, on its target completion date in May 2011. (AAVA Newsleteer, August 16-22, 2010)