ASCE UK Group and ICE webinar: Ethical dilemmas facing civil engineers

Tara Hoke

Tara Hoke is the General Counsel at ASCE and a member of the Virginia bar. Her responsibilities for ASCE include legal consultation in the areas of employment, tax, corporate, contract, antitrust, and intellectual property law.

Ms. Hoke oversees ASCE's professional conduct committee, and writes a monthly column, A Question of Ethics, which is published in Civil Engineering magazine. Tara serves as Secretary for the Committee on Publication Ethics, a UK-based nonprofit established to provide guidance to journal editors and publishers on publication ethics.

Ian Parke

Ian is the current UK president of the American Society of Civil Engineers and liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers. He is also a reviewer of candidates for CPR & IPR and a Policy Fellow at the ICE.

His recent experience has been in renewable energy, working for EDF Renewables on a variety of projects including Battery Storage, solar, and on and offshore wind turbines. Ian worked at EDF for twelve years where in addition to working on renewables, he was the Fleet Civil Engineer for EDF thermal generation. Prior to EDF Ian was working on several energy related projects including underground gas storage and transmission.

Ian is an accredited storage tank inspector working within Nuclear and petrochemicals.

Ian is a former director of the Engineering Equipment and Materials Association and a former chair of the Civil Engineering Advisory Board for GENSIP (Coal Generators Safety & Integrity Programme).

Richard Bayfield

Richard is the Chair the ICE Ethics Committee and currently the ICE Trustee responsible for ethics. Richard’s civil engineering career comprises senior roles as a contractor, consultant and client. He has also studied law and was Chair of the Society of Construction Law in 2003/4. He is one of four civil engineers who have been made Honorary Members of the society. In 2006 he was appointed to the construction minister’s sounding board of six, chaired by the late Sir Michael Latham, which advised on proposed changes to UK construction legislation.

His early career began with Costain working on major projects including the Thames Barrier. The latter part of his career has involved working with large client organisations including Honda, UCL, New College Oxford, and the Church Commissioners. These client leadership roles have subsequently attracted peer awards for successful project delivery. The client role has majored on establishing a positive project culture, clear project governance and pro-active risk management processes. Richard occasionally lectures and writes about client leadership, including methods such as early warnings and conflict avoidance strategies to establish a true collaborative culture.

Richard often acts as an independent project advisor providing a second opinion or peer review on the status of a project. Sometimes this may be formalised into an Adjudicator’s Decision. Frequently such advice is obtained to avoid a formal dispute. Richard was previously appointed to dispute panels for Terminal 5 and the London 2012 Olympics.

John Beck CEng FICE

• Independent Consultant

Former posts:

• Chief Executive & Secretary of the Church of England Diocese of Manchester, the third largest English diocese, serving two million people in Greater Manchester, parts of Lancashire and Cheshire.
• Director General of the International Cotton Association, the regulatory and arbitral body for the US$60 billion annual value globally traded commodity, setting the trading rules and operating a commercial arbitration service for international cotton contract disputes.
• Consultant with niche construction law and arbitration practice in Manchester, Gately Vinden, specialising in dispute resolution and corporate insolvency.
• ICE Director International, supporting ICE’s interests across 130 countries, via 96 country representatives and 8 overseas offices, supporting local associations and liaising with universities, UK and foreign government departments and agencies.
• Local government technical director 1990 – 1999

Unpaid roles

• ICE Council Member 2012 – 21, Trustee 2019 - 2021 carrying Ethics & Professional Conduct portfolio. Former Chair, Ethics Committee
• Past-President (2011) and long-term Honorary Secretary of Société des Ingénieurs et Scientifiques de France (UK section) a division of a Paris-based, international professional body and learned society of 1.2 million members, maintaining technical and cultural links.
• Chairman, local government International Affairs Committee of Technical Advisors Group (TAG) (1996 – 2002) representing the Chief Technical Officers in 444 district councils and 43 county councils.