With growing global efforts towards sustainable infrastructure development, various
professional entities are embarked on developing innovative technologies that add value to
existing traditional services in the built environment with the aim of ensuring sustainable
infrastructure development. A typical area of importance is value engineering. Thus, a study
was conducted to explore the application of value engineering services in the Malawi
construction industry. Using qualitative research methods where relevant professional within
the industry were interviewed, this paper evaluates construction professionals’ attitudes
towards provision of value added innovative construction services and links the technical
competencies of the practitioners with the usage of value engineering services. A sample size
of 86 respondents drawn from 56 different local consulting construction firms representing
93% of the total consulting firms registered by the National Construction Industry Council of
Malawi in 2011/2012 financial year was used. Stratified random sampling was used. Data was
collected using an open-ended and close-ended questionnaire. The results revealed that value
engineering is rarely used by the local construction professionals in Malawi and that
construction interventions that provide for value for clients’ infrastructural investments, when
performed, are usually implemented at design stage. Most respondents stated that clients’ lack
of insistence to use value engineering contributes to low application of value engineering as
clients believe that the use of such a service would increase the cost of services. It is thus
recommended that proper efforts should be made to entrench value engineering services
within the construction industry through creation of an enabling environment to foster
innovations among construction professionals that can help promote sustainable in