Abstract
Meeting stakeholders’ needs and satisfaction is a primary project success factor in addition to
cost, time and quality. Though studies have suggested stakeholders’ dissatisfaction with project
success, there is lack of studies on quantity surveyors’ role and management in developing
countries in achieving project success. This paper explored and evaluated consultant’s
management approach as part of a broader study aimed at ‘Developing sustainable stakeholder
management framework for construction projects in Ghana’. Firstly, literature on construction
stakeholder management from journals and published dissertations were reviewed. GETFund
tertiary education projects in Ghana were used as case study. Data was analysed using the
stakeholder circle, salience and matrix approaches suggested by scholars and used in similar
researches to identify and evaluate key stakeholders role and management. The study confirmed
the identification and role of Quantity Surveyors as key stakeholders though not managed as
such by project managers. It established project failures as effect of stakeholder management
absence and recommends the education, consideration of stakeholder management by project
managers, keeping Quantity Surveyors well informed, monitored and actively involved in the
project planning.