PhD-student from Ghana joins KC@W-team for three years

Richard Ohene Asiedu was admitted to the Chair of Construction Economics in December 2012 as a PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof. Alfen. He holds a bachelors degree in Building Technology from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and a Master of Science degree in Infrastructure Planning from the University of Stuttgart. He has worked for several construction firms either as Qunatity Surveyor or Project Manager and is currently a lecturer on study leave from the Koforidua Polytechnic in Ghana. He is at the moment working on the topic «Cost and Time Misrepresentation of Public Sector Projects in Developing Countries» where he hopes to design a model to predict the occurence of cost and time overruns.