Implementing Value Engineering on Road Projects in Ghana

The inadequate and unsatisfactory Value for Money (VFM) achieved on road projects in developing countries like Ghana has been so pervasive and still remains an inevitable issue and a canker. Road Infrastructure and Support Agencies (RISA) under the Ministry of Roads and Highways (MRH) with its experienced and astute Road Professionals (RPs) or Technical Professionals (TPs) still continue to be confronted with VFM issues even though almost all road projects in Ghana are believed to have a VFM agenda. The capital intensive nature of road projects in developing countries, like Ghana coupled with its inevitable myriad of challenges still poses so much threats to road project administration in the country both now and even in the future. The attempt to achieve an optimum VFM through an advanced VFM practice integration into the conventional VFM practice remains the only solution to remedying these problems or challenges that have bedeviled this unrealized VFM agenda. Accordingly, the study was conducted with the aim of establishing the usefulness of Value Engineering (VE) on road projects in Ghana to promote its implementation.