The imperatives of effective project implementation on national infrastructural development: The engineering perspective

Project implementation has witnessed multifarious challenges ranging from quackery, corruption, project failures, and inflation of project costs to project abandonment. This has led many developing countries to remain in the doldrums of economic development. An effective project implementation is one that involves all relevant professionals and follows the necessary channels of project execution. The research focused on how effective project implementation can affect the infrastructural development in Nigeria. The research revealed that an effective project implementation will add value to infrastructure development through the elimination of abandonment of projects, projects failure, corruption, project delay and quackery. This paper through its research opined that an effective project implementation will improve the national infrastructural development through durability and high quality infrastructure, increased infrastructural serviceability and sustainability, improved value through transparent project execution, due process compliance and productivity enhancement in construction activities. With the results of the research, it is being recommended that projects should be handled by relevant professionals and the various cycles of civil engineering project be allowed to have its uninterrupted course in project execution.