Code of Professional Conduct Flashcards
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Under the DBIA Code of Professional Conduct, a member's primary obligation when public safety conflicts with a client's cost-cutting directive is to:
Answer: Prioritize public safety and refuse to implement unsafe measures
Public health and safety always take precedence over client directives under the DBIA Code's foundational safety obligations.
A DBIA member serving as a design-build advisor for a public agency later wants to compete for a contract influenced by that advisory work. The Code of Professional Conduct would:
Answer: Require recusal from the competition due to the prior advisory relationship
Prior advisory roles that shaped procurement create conflicts of interest that bar participation in the resulting competition.
How does the DBIA Code address a member's responsibility to stay current with developments in design-build practice and law?
Answer: Members have an ongoing duty to maintain and improve professional competence
DBIA's Code imposes an ongoing obligation on all members to maintain professional competence through continued learning and practice updates.
When a client requests that a DBIA member omit unfavorable information from a project status report to be shared with public stakeholders, the Code requires the member to:
Answer: Refuse to produce a misleading or incomplete public report
DBIA's honesty and transparency obligations prohibit creating reports that mislead public stakeholders regardless of client direction.
A DBIA member is pressured by a project owner to accept a change order that conceals the true nature of the work for budget reporting purposes. The Code requires the member to:
Answer: Refuse to execute a change order designed to obscure or misrepresent costs
Executing documents designed to misrepresent costs or scope violates the DBIA Code's honesty and integrity requirements.
In a design-build pursuit, a DBIA member inadvertently receives confidential pricing information from a competing firm. The Code of Professional Conduct requires the member to:
Answer: Notify the owner and the competing firm, and not use the information
Inadvertently received confidential competitive information must be disclosed to affected parties and not used to gain competitive advantage.
A DBIA member who is also a licensed engineer stamps drawings prepared by an unlicensed junior staff member without adequate review. This action violates the Code of Professional Conduct because it:
Answer: Misrepresents the member's personal knowledge and responsible oversight of the work
Stamping work without adequate review is a misrepresentation of the professional's oversight and violates both professional licensing law and the DBIA Code.