IDIC is charged with promoting and implementing the consulting engineering industry's strategic goals on behalf of Member Associations. Its strategic objectives are to: represent world-wide the majority of firms providing technology- based intellectual services for the built and natural environment; assist members with issues relating to business practice; define and actively promote conformance to a code of ethics; enhance the image of consulting engineers as leaders and wealth creators in society; promote the commitment to environmental sustainability. IDIC arranges seminars, conferences and other events in the furtherance of its goals: maintenance of high ethical and professional standards; exchange of views and information; discussion of problems of mutual concern among Member Associations and representatives of the international financial institutions; development of the consulting engineering indusiry in developing countries. IDIC members endorse FIDIC's statutes and policy statements and comply with FIDIC'’s Code of Ethics which calls for professional competence, impartial advice and open and fair competition.