The Moral Grey Zone: A Live Panel on Ethics in the Built Environment
About this Event
Three Perspectives. No Easy Answers. Probably Some Disagreement. Certainly Some Fun.
Ethics isn't always clear-cut. In the built environment, professionals regularly face situations where technical responsibility, commercial pressures, client expectations, and personal values intersect—often with no obvious right answer.
Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking evening as three industry experts—a lawyer, an engineer, and a philosopher—take on a series of challenging ethical dilemmas drawn from real-world professional practice. Expect lively debate, contrasting viewpoints, and insights that will challenge the way you think about ethics in the workplace.
Featuring:
Alex Hartmann – Partner, Hall & Wilcox
A leading construction lawyer with more than 30 years of experience, offering practical perspectives on the legal and ethical realities of project delivery.
Ben Moore – Audio-Visual & Theatre Consultant, Arup
Combining over 25 years of project experience with backgrounds in philosophy and psychotherapy, Ben brings a unique human-centred lens to complex ethical questions.
Pinar Smaragdis – Senior Associate, Building Services Engineer, JHA
An experienced engineer known for balancing technical excellence with creative problem-solving in the face of real project pressures.
Attendees are encouraged to submit ethical dilemmas and questions when registering, with opportunities throughout the evening to challenge the panel and contribute to the discussion.
Whether you're looking to gain valuable CPD hours, broaden your professional perspective, or simply enjoy a lively conversation with industry peers, this is an event not to be missed.
Professional Engineers can earn 2 hours of Ethics CPD— two-thirds of the three-hour ethics requirement—while enjoying networking, drinks, and refreshments in a relaxed setting.
No recordings. No scripted answers. Just honest conversations about the ethical challenges shaping the built environment today.
This event is free for CIBSE members, thanks to our host JHA. CIBSE gratefully acknowledges JHA for hosting the event at their offices and providing refreshments.
CIBSE ANZ events are proudly supported by Seber Recruitment Group — Australia’s specialist recruitment partner to the design engineering sector.
Seber provides permanent and contract recruitment solutions across all Building Services and Civil & Structural disciplines, from Junior through to Director level.
Backed by over 12 years of industry experience, their specialist team is driven by one goal: connecting exceptional engineering talent with leading consultancies across Australia.
www.linkedin.com/company/seberrecruitment
CIBSE Australia and New Zealand provides members and the greater building industry with progressive leadership and knowledge. The institution promotes competence that forges new standards of excellence in design, science and engineering of the built environment.
Our vision is to be the predominant Professional Association for building services engineers in the ANZ region.
www.cibse.org.au
CIBSE Privacy Policy
The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) is committed to protecting your privacy, and takes its responsibilities regarding the security of members' and customers' information very seriously. For the purpose of registering you for this event and providing you with further information in relation to this event we will process your personal data within our customer database. On the basis of legitimate interest we may use your data to inform you of similar events in the future and to promote services, activities and commercial objectives that are designed to support the science, art and practice of building services engineering . For more information about how we process any personal information that we collect about you, how you can instruct us if you prefer to limit the use of that information and procedures that we have in place to safeguard your privacy please view our privacy policy
Event Behavioural Policy
CIBSE wants all attendees to feel welcome and included at our events. We ask attendees to keep in mind that they are within a professional environment when at CIBSE events and they are expected to always demonstrate professional behaviour modelling high standards of ethical conduct, honesty and integrity to protect the reputation and standing of CIBSE. CIBSE will not tolerate or allow any discriminatory or disrespectful behaviours by any person during CIBSE events, including bullying, harassment or sexist, racist, or exclusionary comments or jokes at our events. Where alcohol is provided, attendees are expected to know their limits and drink responsibly. The provision of alcohol should not be taken as an endorsement by CIBSE for attendees to drink excessively nor for any resulting improper conduct or activity.
By registering for this event, you agree to abide by the CIBSE Event Behavioural Policy.
Event Photography
By attending this event, you acknowledge that you may be photographed or filmed. These images may be used to promote the organisation's work and future events. If you do not wish for your image to be taken, please notify the event staff immediately upon arrival at the event.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
AUD 0.00 to AUD 40.00
