IMPLIED CODE OF ETHICS

CLIENT’S IMPLIED ETHICS

• The client should:
• Select engineers on the basis of merit in accordance with
accepted practices.
• Pay adequate and equitable fees to the consulting engineer for
his services.
• Accept the consulting engineer as a professional adviser .
• Accept the responsibility for the consequences to be expected
from variation/deviations.
• Provide the consulting engineer with the information he requires.
• Give credit to the consulting engineer.
• Respect the consulting engineer’s work.
CLIENT’S RESPONSIBILITIES
• The client should:
• Inform the engineer of his previous involvement with particular
aspects.
• Request of information that is lacking to him for a complete
understanding of work.
• Should ensure that he has qualified staff that is competent.
• Should promptly make decisions on matters.
• Inform the engineer as accurately as possible.
TERMINATION OF RELATION
• Client discharges an engineer for want of skill and ability.
• Both parties agree to terminate contract.
• Purpose was already accomplished.
• The engineer dies or becomes insane.
• The client dies, except where it is agreed upon in a contract.
ENGINEER’S FEES
• FACTORS TO CONSIDER:
• Engineer’s lack of control of the basic requirements.
• Basic requirements sometimes are vague and uncertain.
• Owner change their minds.
• TYPES OF FEES
• LUMP-SUM
• UNIT PRICE
• COST PLUS FIXED PERCENTAGE
• COST PLUS FEE
DUTIES OF ENGINEER TO
PUBLIC
• Discourage untrue and unfair statement
• Protect life and health of the public and employees
• Express an opinion only when founded on adequate
knowledge and honest conviction
• Refrain from issuing statements, criticisms, etc. On matters
connected with public policy
• Refrain from expressing publicly opinion without factual basis.
• Assist indigent client
• Participate in community activities
• Obey and support laws of the state
• Dissociate from enterprises organized for illicit purposes
• Discourage construction of public works economically
unsound to community
DUTIES OF AN ENGINEER TO
BROTHERS IN PROFESSION
• Uphold the honor and prestige of engineering profession
• Take care that credit for engineering work is given to those to whom
the credit is properly due
• Refrain from directly/ indirectly injuring the profession’s reputation,
prospects or practice of another engineer
• Avoid criticizing another’s engineer’s work
• Compete with another on the basis of charges for work by
underbidding
• Dissociate from working with brothers who do not conform to
ethical practices
• Help brother-engineers
• Refrain from refraining the work of another engineer
• Sow cordiality among clients/ customers
• Refrain from advertising in self-laudatory language
• Defend pure engineering subjects