ABSTRACT
Ethics are at the heart of professional conduct and are encapsulated in the three principles of the Royal Institute of British Architects Code of Professional Conduct: honesty and integrity, competence and relationships. Members of the profession sign up to these principles and undertake to uphold them through a series of ethical behaviours designed to protect public interest, ensure delivery of safe, sustainable buildings, ensure honesty in dealings with clients and other consultants, and to ensure that one only undertakes the work for which one is qualified. In the absence of collectively agreed and applicable means of upholding the Code of Professional Conduct it is up to each practice and the individual architects to construct their own ways of acting ethically. Bauman Lyons Architects are testing some transferrable examples of practice that allow to retain ethics at the heart of what one does.
