ABSTRACT
Regardless of significant institutional involvement and interventions in flood control, Ghana still experiences excessive flooding annually. This is due, in part, to Ghana’s underdeveloped institutional and regulatory frameworks for flood management, which make providing efficient flood-resilient construction and adaptation in the country exceedingly challenging. This emphasizes the necessity to understand the construction industry’s ability to cope with floods by guaranteeing suitable flood-resilient construction and improved adaptation of construction facilities. Drawing on recent literature, this chapter seeks to examine Ghana’s institutional and regulatory framework to identify its weakness and propose guidelines, which would define Ghana’s flood-resilient construction and adaptation management and planning. Additionally, flood-resilient construction and adaptation metrics derived from a review of the regulatory regimes and building codes would guide the development of a flood-resilient construction blueprint that describes how the construction and flood design of infrastructure could be integrated.
