Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution

Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution provides a masterclass in the project and people management skills that set apart the most accomplished design and construction professionals. This textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students distils the insights gleaned over the authors’ decades of experience in academia and industry into actionable principles for success in a notoriously demanding field.

Combining real life case studies with original research, Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution points the way from the classroom to the jobsite. Interactive exercises allow readers to take the role of junior project managers and other emerging professionals and reason through the ethical dilemmas surrounding building projects from the initial bid to completion. Chapters on stakeholder alignment, productivity, and project success ensure that aspiring leaders’ business decisions are as economically sound as they are ethically correct.

From its accessible, conversational tone to the lifetime’s worth of construction wisdom it shares, Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution offers an extended mentoring session with three giants of the building industry.

F.H. (Bud) Griffis, PhD, PE, (1938-2021) was Professor of Construction Engineering and Management at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering and Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He was also Executive Vice President in the firm of Robbins, Pope and Griffis Engineers, P.C. of New York (RPG).

Frederick B. Plummer, Jr., PhD, is an executive with over 37 years of experience in the offshore oil and gas industry. He is currently a writer, investor, and self-employed consultant.

Francis X. DarConte, PhD, RA, is a research professor and construction management faculty member at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. He is also a self-employed consultant with over 35 years of experience in the commercial building industry.