Constructing Building Integrity Raising Standards Through Professionalism

Part I: Introduction and Background

1. Introduction

Peter Gow, Katja Cooper, Hugh Breakey, and Charles Sampford

2. Owners, Investors, or Consumers?

Peter Gow

3. Key Tensions in Professional Ethics: A Typology

Hugh Breakey, Peter Gow, Charles Sampford, and Katja Cooper

Part II: Ethics and Governance of Individual Professions

4. Ethical Tensions and the Architectural Profession

Michael J. Ostwald, Charles Gillon, and Hazel Easthope

5. Integrity Issues Facing a New Profession: The Case of Australian Building Surveyors

Elizabeth Bazen

6. Codification of Values and Goals: The Case of Residential Construction Managers

Kerry London, Zelinna Pablo, and Barbara Bok

7. An Emerging Profession and an Evolving Regulatory Landscape: Ethical Tensions and Strata Managers

Hazel Easthope, Charles Gillon, Hugh Breakey, et al. 

Part III: Cross-Professional and Integrity System Component Interactions

8. Professionalisation and the Role of Meta-Regulation

John Vines Oam and Sancia West

9. The Role of Professional Associations in Influencing Standards in the Australian Building Industry

Katja Cooper, Elizabeth Bazen, Sacha Reid, and Cheryl Desha 

10. A Comparative Analysis of the Integrity System Frameworks for Real Estate Agents and Property Valuers in Australia     

Katja Cooper and Sacha Reid

11. The Central Role of the Construction Manager to Influence Professional Integrity in the Residential Sector

Kerry London, Zelinna Pablo, and Barbara Bok

Part IV: Systemic Approaches to Mapping Professional Integrity

12. Towards Integrity Systems: Capturing the Factors That Influence Professional Integrity for Construction Managers, Engineers, Architects, and Town Planners

Zelinna Pablo, Kerry London, Elizabeth Bazen, et al. 

13. Investigating Integrity: A Bayesian Network Approach

Zelinna Pablo, Kerry London, and Barbara Bok

14. Investigating Integrity: An Actor-Network Approach

Zelinna Pablo, Kerry London, and Barbara Bok

Part V: Reforming the System

15. Government’s Leadership Role for Housing Sector Policy Reform

Kerry London, Zelinna Pablo, and Barbara Bok

16. Regulation of Building Professions

John Phillimore, Peter Gow, Elizabeth Bazen, and Keith Hampson 

17. Timely Interventions: Anticipatory Governance Mechanisms for Acting in Advance of Opportunistic Behaviour

Barbara Bok, Katja Cooper, Elizabeth Bazen, et al. 

18. Conclusion

Peter Gow, Katja Cooper, Charles Sampford, and Hugh Breakey

Biography

Katja Cooper is a Research Fellow at Griffith University’s Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (IEGL) in Brisbane, Australia. Her current research focuses on professional ethics in the construction and aquaculture industries and her previous work examined a range of Australian domestic and foreign policy issues including refugees/asylum seekers, transitional justice, extended nuclear deterrence, and Australia–China relations.

Hugh Breakey is Deputy Director and Principal Research Fellow in moral philosophy at Griffith University’s Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law in Brisbane, Australia. Hugh’s work spans the philosophical sub-disciplines of political theory, normative ethics, applied philosophy, and legal theory.

Charles Sampford (DPhil Oxon 1986) is Foundation Dean of Law, Research Professor in Ethics, and Director of the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law at Griffith University. He is also a barrister and Victorian Parliamentary Integrity Adviser. He has written over 160 articles and chapters and has completed 34 books and edited collections in ethics, governance, and law.

Peter Gow retired as Deputy Director General of Industry Regulation and Building Commissioner in Western Australia after a career in structural engineering, contracting policy and dispute resolution, and building industry reform.

Keith Hampson established and is CEO of the Australian Sustainable Built Environment National Research Centre (SBEnrc) and its predecessor, the CRC for Construction Innovation, which develops projects informed by industry partner needs, secures national funding, project manages the collaborative research, and oversees ‘research into practice’ initiatives.