Constructing Building Integrity (Hardcover)
Katja Cooper
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Add to basketHardcover. Constructing Building Integrity examines how ethical and professional standards can be raised in the residential apartment sector. Recent incidents in a number of countries, culminating in Londons Grenfell Tower inferno that claimed 72 lives, have highlighted systemic failures in the building industrys professional and regulatory standards frameworks. These disasters raise serious questions over how consumer confidence and public trust can be improved when outcomes for multi-level, multi-owned apartment buildings remain sub-optimal.To address this issue, the book explores how cross-professional interactions, regulatory oversight, public accountability, and the integrity systems that govern individual professions' ethical and professional standards can be strengthened to enhance professionalism and improve consumer outcomes.Focusing primarily on Australia but with wider relevance, the book draws on interdisciplinary research and insights from academics and industry experts. It discusses how integrity system components function and interact, how ethical risks and challenges impede their effectiveness, and what additional mechanisms can strengthen them. It provides timely guidance for built environment students, industry professionals, regulators, and businesses active in the sector on how product quality and professionalism can be enhanced across the life-cycle of residential apartment buildings. Constructing Building Integrity investigates whether strengthening, reforming or re-positioning professionals can contribute to better governance, higher standards and regained public trust in the construction industry. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Constructing Building Integrity examines how ethical and professional standards can be raised in the residential apartment sector. Recent incidents in a number of countries, culminating in London’s Grenfell Tower inferno that claimed 72 lives, have highlighted systemic failures in the building industry’s professional and regulatory standards frameworks. These disasters raise serious questions over how consumer confidence and public trust can be improved when outcomes for multi-level, multi-owned apartment buildings remain sub-optimal.
To address this issue, the book explores how cross-professional interactions, regulatory oversight, public accountability, and the ‘integrity systems’ that govern individual professions' ethical and professional standards can be strengthened to enhance professionalism and improve consumer outcomes.
Focusing primarily on Australia but with wider relevance, the book draws on interdisciplinary research and insights from academics and industry experts. It discusses how integrity system components function and interact, how ethical risks and challenges impede their effectiveness, and what additional mechanisms can strengthen them. It provides timely guidance for built environment students, industry professionals, regulators, and businesses active in the sector on how product quality and professionalism can be enhanced across the life-cycle of residential apartment buildings.
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.
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