How important is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Construction?
How important is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Construction?This is one of the questions posed in our intermediate level Engineering Ethics Toolkit case study, Implementing the use of homegrown mass timber for residential housing, which addresses the ethical issues of sustainability, respect for the environment, future generations, societal impact and CSR, with the educational aim of practising ethical analysis.
This case study involves an early-career consultant engineer working in the area of sustainable construction. She must negotiate between the values that she, her employer, and her client hold in order to balance sustainability goals and profit.
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