Subject 8 : Cases where the professional practice professional ethics are often perpetrators always. (English Version)

Subject 8
Cases where the professional practice professional ethics are often perpetrators always.

                                                                                  

     From processing cases of alleged ethics from the ethics committee. Architect Council in the past several years, and now find that the case received the most complaints. Often the offender is a professional architect. To be involved with the construction of control buildings. It is a claim arises from field officers or officers of the State Auditor construction process according to the Building Control Act. Report alleges architect as construction supervisors do not control construction of buildings shall be in the form of permission is important. Each case or claim expressions are different to the overall process has included the wrong message, or allegations of violations of the architect to control the construction of a case study of the following five characteristics.

1. The signing of Construction Management by mistake.
     Allegations as if this is a story that was always in the architectural profession. From the architectural design as the design and completion. Asked the employer to sign a document request to allow building construction supervision of construction before. Once the auction price contractors and supervisors to make changes later. Because of regulatory approvals for the building of Bangkok or the district office indicates that the documents requested permission to build a plant operator for both architects and engineers to sign.
 
     As such, the architects who have been signed without attention to follow-up. Only when the process of building the architect does not take control and supervision duties. Because it is not anticipated that they need to control construction In addition, the employer or contractor is not interested in changing the control of the originally stated for any reason. Then, during the construction process. Contractors or building owners may have been modified or constructed as a mistake from the original applicant. When the District Officer or the detection of Bangkok has made a complaint to the duties and legal requirements.
 
     As this case was guilty of professional ethics arise without intention or unintentional. But because of negligence. Therefore, to alert you that when the architect and designer. If entered into the control construction of the employer to temporarily then. Should always check that the building that started construction or not. For themselves will notify the contractor to change the name to be supervisors or for sure after we get building permits and construction. You a letter to the district office or the BMA to inform terminate or withdraw your name from the immediate supervision of construction in the form of government with a formal notification to the owner or employer who oversee construction of new supply to be lost, and issues important to store a copy of these documents are required for verification in case of complaints arising in the future.

     "Punishment of the case if this step is a misdemeanor, he shall admonish warn other offenses. Because It is not intention and negligence to make careless mistakes."

2. The signing of Construction Management by it, but did not perform correctly.
     This case is different from the first article where professional architect or architectural control or intends to sign the construction contract and agree to pay the actual construction supervisors to the employer or contractor. But their task is not responsible for the correct standards of good professional practice or not to review the supervision of construction in any way at all, but only by accepting wages alone. This case also the architect will be complaints from employers that did not express duty unit and full attention to the correct standards, then need. In addition, if the building is constructed by a mistake they do not recognize. Because they do not have oversight duties properly, state officials also are accused of building control work incorrectly in the form and also legal.

     "If this is considered the architect do not base unethical professional duties under the responsibility of the person who is considered a more serious level of penalty. So punishment is probation or suspension of step a temporary license are more or less the intent of the offense."

3. Controlling the wrong building, but with a warning then.
     This is true of architects have been hired by the owner or the contractor agreed to supervision of construction of the professional standards and legal requirements. During construction the architect had been aware that the contractor or the owner of the building was modified to add or change a wrong to the original, which is licensed as a building does not result in legal control of buildings, and then a letter notifying the owner and building contractor to modify the additions in the correct form, and notify the district office or the Bangkok governor as evidence. But not the owner or contractor to ignore the request then the architect has prepared the public notice that a withdrawal from the control of construction such as the cause. Later, the complaint from either party and the committee members have reviewed the evidence that the alleged architect has done an alert and notification to withdraw their name correctly, and then follow the steps.

     "Case by case, this petition. Commission decision to lift or dismiss the allegations. The architect considered the alleged offense is not in any way."

4. Controlling the wrong building or a law and signed, not done editing.
     This is the architect who signed the control of any building with a similar case of ignorance. 1 or with the intention of the compensation according to Case 2 without regulatory supervision in accordance with good standard and in accordance with law correctly for any reason. After construction or when construction is completed audit found that the building is to fill the form and legal wrong. The architect who has to inform the owner or employer to know that the perpetrators of the original. Later owners of buildings to form to hire architects, other modifications instead and then the employer has used a Series 2 that the correct legal and approached the architect who shall be signed by themselves are not a designer. This case when the investigation will be considered a separate offense penalties as follows: 2 points.
 
              1) Abandon the work done without a reason.
              2) Signed by a professional architectural controls in the work that they do not receive or review. Self-control.

     "This case study of the offense has a minimum penalty is probation celebrity architect noted for 2 years."

5. The contract signed in the building or does not do their job.
     Finally, even if not directly related to Construction Management. But the guilty Architects of professional ethics, which often occurs always in the professional arena is gathering together for the data for study. In this case, the offense is a certified architect in building the self is not involved in the design and construction supervision of either a return or not. Such actions fall into the wrong professional ethics that "Practitioners must not  signed a professional job that they do not check Or self-control". In addition to this offense, this architect may also be connected actions which may bring disgrace to the dignity of the profession as well. Due to the selfish acts of bribery rather than return to the principles of correct professional practice.
 
     "Punishment of the case is considered placed in severe penalties. Committee members can be diagnosed in the punishment levels to temporarily suspend the license from one year over a period depending on the results, and deliberate offense."
 
     The data from the trial of ethics committee members current session (50-53) showed that in addition to complaints of violation of these common origin. Current professionals, especially architects, are likely to receive a complaint or allegation of professional practice within the scope of service from another client or employer in several ways as a result of the work, services of the architects themselves, knowledge of customers and society, more public, to not understanding a model of responsibility and scope of services, the real architect of the matter itself. The fact that such defect is not the responsibility of the architect responsible in any way. Current complaints of ethics of architects found guilty more of the following issues.

              1) Design and construction of buildings is not legitimate and relevant laws.
              2) The construction does not match the type of license.
              3) The use of building materials is not consistent with the information specified in the list of assembly.
              4) The building design exceeds the budget set.
              5) The construction does not conform to standards of construction.
              6) Control of construction and craftsmanship that is not already meet the needs of customers.
              7) Etc..

     It is therefore important that all professionals should focus attention on documents and terms of employment work from the start that they need to perform and deliver in any manner for some customers, to design buildings according to the law, selection of materials according to professional standards, control of construction according to the main course. Understanding and cooperation between their employer and the contractor shall be well with the smooth, to reduce the risk of being accused committed to their professional ethics.


(Note : guidelines for diagnosis and punishment of the case study above is the opinion of the interview is Admiral Aekthanit  Kitti-ampon duties as Vice Chairman of the Ethics Committee Members during the year 2547-50, and processed by the decisions of ethics cases in the same way the past).