Aiming to reinforce anti-corruption mentality and ethical behavior among individual engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers is creating new standards of business practice for its own members that would be adopted by those of other engineering and construction groups.
Earlier this month, ASCE unveiled a draft of its "principles for professional conduct" that would revise its current code of ethics and serve as a model for other professional societies in the U.S. and abroad. The draft notes that company-oriented groups such as Transparency International and the World Economic Forum have recently released anti-corruption pledges, but "there stands a lack of activity by engineering societies and their members. Most do not directly address the specific problems of corrupt business practices. Its time to bring individual members of the worlds engineering societies into the war against corruption."