AT the CIOB's annual dinner at the Guildhall on 22 February, president Allan McMullen welcomed a call for ethical training to be part of the institute's membership criteria.

"Ethical behaviour and legal behaviour are not the same," he said. "There is a suggestion that we have a weakness in our professional education and that ethical training should become a professional requirement for practitioners and clients of construction.

"The CIOB would welcome such a move and calls for international professional standards of ethics and a change in behaviour of the industry; backed up by stronger legislation and greater transparency."

The World Bank says that corruption costs the global economy US$1.5 trillion a year. Writing in CM last month, Canadian contractor and CIOB fellow Keith Gillam called on the institute to make ethics training a requirement.

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