Duty of Care Seminar

We found that duty of care was inherently linked with practice. In particular, we saw duty of care located in concrete models of practice that are adaptable, measured, and culturally/historically/site sensitive. Further, we see it linked to the setting up of firm boundaries in these models of practice, to the extent that a measured decision is made in regard to the ambitions of a project and what is achievable with the budget, personnel and technologies available. A case study of how such a duty of care is neglected is the Ryugyang Hotel, North Korea (construction ceased prematurely in 1992), where the enormous ambitions of the project did not measure up against the budget available to the project. Jobs were lost, promises were not met, and as such, a duty of care was abused.