Ethics for the built environment

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Praise for Construction Project Management by Peter Fewings:

"The complexity of the subject matter has at least been reinforced in an informative document with a large helping of common sense ... written in a comprehensive and well structured manner." Building Engineer Magazine

Ethics are not an optional extra for the professional in the built environment sector. Whether you're a civil engineer, an architect or a construction project manager, an understanding of the ethical context of your work is an institutional requirement and a commercial demand, not to mention a matter of personal pride.

Sometimes, as a construction professional you will be faced with complicated dilemmas, as commercial responsibilities clash with health and safety, environmental or competition concerns. Peter Fewings brings together practical construction project management experience with ethical theory to establish how best to deal with difficult issues.

Jim Mason

List of figures	p. xv
List of tables	p. xvii
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
The built environment	p. 2
Responsibilities and stakeholders	p. 2
Methodology and structure of the book	p. 4
Ethical decision-making	p. 5
Notes	p. 6
Part I Theory and application	p. 7
1 Development of an ethical framework and the built environment	p. 9
Development of building and its impact on ethics	p. 9
Integrated professional behaviour	p. 12
The basis of ethics - good and bad, right and wrong	p. 12
Right and wrong	p. 20
Application to the built environment	p. 24
Conclusion	p. 27
Notes	p. 28
2 Ethical dilemmas and decision-making	p. 29
Definition and context	p. 29
Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning	p. 30
Background of ethical perception	p. 33
Ethical perceptions - business and professional practice	p. 35
Classic ethical dilemmas	p. 38
Ethical dilemmas in the built environment	p. 39
Planning dilemmas	p. 39
Property development and management dilemmas	p. 41
The designer's dilemma	p. 43
Construction dilemmas	p. 47
Assessing 99 per cent situations	p. 49
Labour dilemmas	p. 52
Ethical decision-making models	p. 53
Conclusion	p. 58
Notes	p. 58
3 Business ethics and corporate social responsibility policy	p. 61
Business ethics	p. 61
Objections to an ethical code and moral responsibility	p. 64
Code framework	p. 65
A business ethic model	p. 67
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)	p. 68
Rationale for social and environmental reporting	p. 74
Sustainable construction	p. 77
CSR in construction	p. 78
CSR reporting survey	p. 80
Trading	p. 83
Conclusion	p. 84
Notes	p. 84
4 The development of professional ethical codes	p. 87
Definition	p. 87
Professional exclusiveness	p. 88
Professional competence	p. 90
Professional rules of conduct in the built environment	p. 93
Built environment and the rules	p. 100
Transparency in construction trading relationships	p. 101
Ethical leadership	p. 108
The Considerate Contractors Scheme	p. 111
Conclusion	p. 112
Notes	p. 114
5 Discrimination and human resource ethics in the built environment	p. 116
Diversity and equality	p. 116
Human rights	p. 117
Employment and the psychological contract	p. 125
Recruitment, selection and retention	p. 133
Developing economies	p. 136
Learning organisations, training and development	p. 138
Absenteeism and presenteeism	p. 140
The labour force	p. 140
Conclusion	p. 145
Notes	p. 146
6 The ethics of construction quality, safety, health and welfare	p. 149
Fit for purpose	p. 149
Learning from the statistics	p. 150
Occurrence of accidents, dangerous and health incidents	p. 151
Ethical approach to health and safety	p. 152
Responsibilities for health and safety in the construction life cycles	p. 154
Building managers	p. 158
Risk assessment and moral hot air (virtual morality)	p. 160
Quality and moral imagination	p. 162
Changing culture	p. 165
Conclusion	p. 169
Notes	p. 170
7 The planning ethics	p. 171
Questions	p. 172
Development planning in the UK	p. 172
Ethics of development control decisions	p. 175
Basis of planning decisions	p. 178
Different planner roles	p. 181
Facing moral problems	p. 184
Housing supply and sustainability imperatives in the UK	p. 186
Conclusion	p. 187
Notes	p. 188
8 Ethics of sustainability: a UK example	p. 189
Sustainable development	p. 189
Environmental accounting and motivation	p. 193
Urban planning and sustainability	p. 201
Sustainable procurement	p. 203
Sustainable construction	p. 205
The environmental management ethic	p. 209
Measuring sustainability	p. 209
Conclusion	p. 212
Notes	p. 214
9 Trust and relationships	p. 216
Contracts and trust	p. 216
Definition	p. 217
The case for trust in construction	p. 220
Trustworthiness, values and ethics	p. 228
Trust in professionals	p. 232
Trust in practice	p. 233
Trust and risk	p. 236
Conclusion	p. 240
Notes	p. 240
10 Bribery and corruption	p. 243
Business and professional environments	p. 243
Dealing with corruption	p. 250
Corruption in the construction business and competition	p. 253
Competitive bidding	p. 260
Competition and collusion	p. 264
Corruption in property deals	p. 269
Money laundering	p. 272
Achieving reform of corrupt value	p. 273
Conclusion	p. 274
Appendix Corruption and bribe payers indices	p. 275
Notes	p. 278
11 Delivering ethical improvement through contractual good faith	p. 281
The construction context	p. 281
The wider context	p. 282
Partnering and good faith	p. 283
The newer contract forms	p. 284
The duty of good faith	p. 285
Other stimuli towards the introduction of a duty of good faith	p. 286
Judicial hostility?	p. 288
How best to deliver what the parties want?	p. 289
Conclusion	p. 290
Notes	p. 291
Part II Case studies of good practice	p. 293
The case studies	p. 293
12 Comparison of CSR between a developer and a contractor	p. 297
Introduction	p. 297
The contractor	p. 297
The developer	p. 297
Conclusion	p. 300
Note	p. 300
13 Partnering trust and risk management	p. 301
Introduction	p. 301
Transparency and risk	p. 301
Value for money	p. 302
Trust and working together	p. 303
Quality, integrity and achievement	p. 303
Change management	p. 304
Risk management	p. 305
Sustainability and whole life costs	p. 305
Site efficiencies	p. 306
Ethics	p. 306
Conclusion	p. 310
Acknowledgements	p. 310
Notes	p. 310
14 Roofing contractors collusion case study	p. 311
Introduction	p. 311
Corporate penalty	p. 311
Individual penalty	p. 312
The group cases	p. 312
Discussion	p. 314
Notes	p. 315
15 The Heathrow T5 major projects agreement vs false employment	p. 316
Introduction	p. 316
Self-employment in the UK construction industry	p. 316
Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5)	p. 319
Acknowledgement	p. 321
Notes	p. 321
16 Health and safety systems in a large PFI hospital	p. 322
Introduction	p. 322
Health and safety policy and ethics	p. 322
Management involvement	p. 325
Achievements	p. 327
Conclusion	p. 328
Acknowledgement	p. 328
17 Stroud District Council planning case study	p. 329
Introduction	p. 329
Development control policy frustrations and ethics	p. 330
Stroud District Council (SDC)	p. 331
Conclusion	p. 335
Notes	p. 335
18 The use of training to establish small-scale organisations in construction	p. 336
Introduction	p. 336
Enabling an ethical and strategic entrepreneurial outlook	p. 336
The centrality of health and safety ethics	p. 337
The training structure	p. 338
The E scheme	p. 338
Reflection on the ethics of the project	p. 341
Conclusion	p. 342
Acknowledgements	p. 342
Notes	p. 343
19 Manufacturing quality and trading relationships	p. 344
Introduction	p. 344
Manufacturing	p. 344
Building up trust with the contractor and client	p. 346
Conclusion	p. 349
Acknowledgement	p. 350
Note	p. 350
20 Educational partnership and sustainable contracting	p. 351
Introduction	p. 351
The agreement	p. 351
The programme	p. 352
Conclusion	p. 354
Acknowledgement	p. 355
Note	p. 355
21 Trust and relationships in a mega property development	p. 356
Introduction	p. 356
Purpose of the development and stakeholder management	p. 356
Procurement and management	p. 357
Objectives and stakeholder consultation	p. 358
The development of trust during the construction stage	p. 358
Conclusion	p. 364
Notes	p. 365
22 Making it work	p. 366
Education and ethical dialogue	p. 366
Index	p. 368

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