"Officials Take the Lead and Save 1 Billion Won"... Haenam County Sees Strong Results from Joint Design Initiative

Cost Savings and Higher Administrative Efficiency Through In-House Design of 618 Projects
Early Order Placement Aims to Complete Work Before the Farming Season

Haenam County in South Jeolla Province has completed a joint design initiative for projects aimed at improving residents' living convenience and is now moving in earnest to place early construction orders so that the work can be finished before the farming season begins.

According to Haenam County on the 19th, the county has wrapped up the work of its joint design task force, which has been operating since early December, and has begun to swiftly implement various long-awaited resident projects that were included in the main budget for 2026.

Exterior view of Haenam County Office

This joint design task force was operated with 15 civil engineering officials from towns and townships (eup and myeon) organized into three teams, and it completed in-house designs for a total of 618 projects with an overall scale of 32.1 billion won.

The main projects are as follows: ▲ 220 cases of farm road and village access road maintenance (9.397 billion won) ▲ 307 irrigation and drainage canal maintenance projects (14.728 billion won) ▲ 59 small-stream maintenance projects (7.61 billion won) ▲ 19 roadside drainage maintenance projects (958 million won) ▲ 11 sewage facility maintenance projects (420 million won). These projects focus on areas that have a high impact on residents' everyday experience, such as improving living environments and supporting smooth farming activities.

Through this in-house joint design work by public officials, Haenam County achieved savings of approximately 1 billion won in design service costs. It is also being assessed that the county has enhanced administrative efficiency by shortening the period from design to order placement.

With the designs now completed, the county plans to sequentially place construction orders within this month and to finish all projects before the main farming season begins in June. By doing so, it expects to minimize inconvenience for residents during the busy farming period and to help invigorate the local construction economy through swift fiscal execution in the first half of the year.

An official from Haenam County said, "Because the resident living-convenience projects are most closely tied to the daily lives of county residents, we worked to fully reflect the voices from the field from the design stage," adding, "We will do our best to minimize residents' inconvenience and inject vitality into the local economy through early order placement and timely completion."

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