Profit-motivated utilization of construction technology

Operation of construction expertise in the reduced context of the profit motive often leads to failure to consider broadly based, long-range consumer needs. Thus the consumer suffers from inadequate quality control, use of stop-gap measures and the placing of priorities on immediate need rather than on comprehensive planning which anticipates future needs. The result is a slowing in the rate of expansion of basic construction expertise, which means that broad social needs are often neglected. This problem is heightened in those nations where direct or indirect governmental regulation is lacking.

1. Unethical profit-making
2. Unethical construction practices
3. Social unaccountability
4. Short-term planning of product life cycles
5. Non-inclusive management decisions

1. Reductionistic decision making criteria in the construction industry
2. Absence of accountability in construction planning

1. Unethical practices of engineering
2. Single-use urban areas
3. Resource demands of the built environment
4. Prohibitive construction costs
5. Monotonous business buildings
6. Exploitative property development
7. Excessive office space in cities
8. Elitist control of construction technology
9. Decline of architecture

1. Short-term profit maximization

1. Nationalistically determined development of natural resources
2. Limited access to natural resource use decisions

1. Making profit
2. Making long-term construction plans
3. Enhancing scientific and technological research
4. Developing construction industries
5. Criticizing short range planning for long-term development
6. Building ecologically

1. Short-termism
2. Profiteering