THE main contractor of the housing project for victims of Supertyphoon “Yolanda” said that he did not use substandard materials in building their homes.

Juanito “JC” Tayag said in a joint inquiry by the committees on housing and good government and public accountability of the House of Representatives that his company never used or even purchased the eight-millimeter bars that were supposedly used in the houses.

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