Category: Research

Students have chosen their topics for research, discussion, and presentation in the 2022 spring semester of CMCE 4403 Professional Practice and Ethics. I expect great conversations on the following topics-

• Abandoned Olympics Stadiums and Wasted Venues; Relevant Date Range: 1936-present
• Henri Pézerat and the Amisol asbestos factory; Relevant Date Range: 1974-1999
• Replacing Rikers Island with “Humane” Borough-based jails: The NYC DDC plan; Relevant Date Range: 2017-present
• Boston construction double fatality and subsequent penalties; Relevant date range 2021-2022
• Concrete Testing Lab Fraud in NYC; Relevant date range: 2005-2019
• How Did Insurance Ethics Incentivize Behavior in a Post-Hurricane Katrina World?; Relevant Date Range: 2005-2010
• The Ethical Challenges of Micro Apartments in NYC; 2000-present
• Katowice Trade Hall Collapse; Relevant Date Range: 2006
• Bloomberg Pay-to-Play Scheme; Relevant date range: 2015-2020
• Boston’s John Hancock Tower design failures; Relevant date range: 1970-1977
• RaPower-3 LLC and International Automated Systems, Inc. Fraudulent Solar; Relevant date range: 2015-2016
• Japan’s Architect, Hidetsugu Aneha, and the Fraudulent Earthquake Data; Relevant date range: 2005-2008
• Collusion and Bid Rigging Delay Denver Convention Center Project; Relevant date range: 2018-present
• Pemberton Mill Collapse; Relevant Date Range: 1860
• HOLC (Home Owners’ Loan Corporation) maps and redlining in NYC; Relevant Date Range: 1930s-1940s
• El Hoyo Club Fire; Relevant Date Range: 1988-1989
• Facebook’s Discriminating Ad-serving Algorithm; Relevant Date Range: 2019-present
• The Knickerbocker Theater Collapse; Relevant Date Range: 1922
• Displacement, Robert Moses, and the Cross-Bronx Expressway; Relevant Date Range: 1940-1972
• Andrew Siemaszko, Davis-Besse’s Lead Nuclear Engineer; Relevant Date Range: 1999-2008
• Five Women, Richard Meier, and Architecture’s #MeToo Moment; Relevant Date Range: 2018-present
• Sales of Racist and Flawed Data Recognition Software by Amazon to Police; Relevant Date Range: 2019-present
• Consumer Privacy vs. Data Mining in Smart Buildings Relevant Date Range: current