In the booming construction industry consultant has major key responsibilities. It can be said that the consultant is the Guider of both client and the contractor. When contractual disputes are arising the consultants involve by advising relevant stakeholders. Resident Engineers, Resident Quantity Surveyors, Resident Technical Officers are some of the key persons in the consultant organization in Post contract construction projects.

This article does not expect to describe the above key persons' responsibilities. It will be expected to highlight that what type of general ethics the consultant officers have to fulfill. In almost all the construction projects Client is the paymaster, especially for consultants. Therefore my opinion is consultants have to work for the client, every time. But if clients are in the wrong position in contractual or technical matters, as an experienced consultant should declare his idea to the client with logical reasons. 

Everybody knows that all officers are not 100% pure ethical in any industry. Some of them have unethical behaviors for taking advantage for themselves. For an example, person A is the head of the consultant organization, and at the beginning, he issues to rejection of contractor Material approvals, blaming a contractor for Quality failure, advise on cost-cutting. He do all these things to take advantage from contactor with a dirty mind. Then the contractor can control that person as their own wish and they can request direct help for the fraud from above officer. I don't want to describe that how far suffer other officers due to that leader's misbehavior. In this construction industry, honest consultant officers are at risk of in their job thus they have to give maximum effort to survive in the occupation.  

However, if disputes arise, the consultant should not stand on the contractor side, and it major duty to save the client’s money with build quality productive service. Furthermore, good educational background and well build experiences are important to the officers who are involved in consultant organizations. But the most important thing is the person's attitude and ability to take responsibility.