Fumesua (Ash), July 25, GNA - The Building and Road Research Institute (BRRI) is supervising work on 98 projects in the Western and Brong-Ahafo Regions, under the Social Investment Fund (SIF).

Mr Kwaku Amoa-Mensah, Director of the BRRI, said this when he briefed the GNA at Fumesua near Kumasi on Thursday on the achievements and challenges facing the institute.

He said the projects were mainly blocks of classrooms, clinics and places of convenience.

Mr Amoa-Mensah said: "The significant thing about our involvement in the projects is that we execute them using the BRRI technology known as the fast track technology."

He added that: "The technology involves the use of local materials and expertise from the institute would undertake the projects thereby bringing down cost while ensuring good quality work."

Mr Amoa-Mensah said about 60 percent of the projects had already been completed with the remaining nearing completion.

Citing an example of the cost-effectiveness of the BRRI technology, Mr Amoa-Mensah said, "the institute is able to construct a block of three classrooms, office and store at the cost of 140 million cedis while the same work was being executed at the cost of 175 million cedis by outside contractors."

He said apart from cutting down cost, the use of the fast track technology was also used to transfer skills to artisans in the rural areas.