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16 - Addressing Corruption in Our Global Engineering/Construction Industry

from Part III - Engineering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2019

By
William P. Henry
Edited by
Ali E. Abbas
Ali E. Abbas
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
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Summary

The global engineering/construction industry is huge. In 2017, it was estimated to be an $8.8 trillion industry (Market Research Hub, 2016). The US construction industry in 2017 was estimated at $1.2 trillion (Wilcox, 2018). Because the industry is comprised of a myriad of projects to build new facilities or to repair or upgrade existing ones, it is often the location for bribery, fraud, and corruption. Government leaders in Panama, Brazil, and Spain have been removed from office for receiving bribes and kickbacks from projects in their countries. Engineering firms in the United States and Canada have been sanctioned for giving bribes to secure projects. These are the facts.

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Next-Generation Ethics
Engineering a Better Society
 , pp. 230 - 244
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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