Onyia, Chidiebere2023-04-132023-04-132023978288931521510.58863/20.500.12424/4278451http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/4278451This chapter focuses on ethical considerations that guide developing and implementing sustainable higher education infrastructure delivery processes in developing nations. Sustainable Infrastructure thinking should be supported with clear policies to inform the leadership decision process. These decisions should also factor in climate mitigation and adaptation concerns that have been relegated to a check-off list in the past. Strong collaborations across the stakeholder groups to ensure clarity of purpose, transparency in procurement and project monitoring stages are critical for piloting an ethical culture. Ethical leaders must be mindful of the nuances that may erode the values that underpin setting a culture where the learning environment strengthens ethical champions. This chapter explores how ethical relationships can boost ethical decision-making process in higher education institutions. Ethical leaders and their teams set out the "social rules of practice" to support the engagement and management of all relations in developing sustainable infrastructure that supports academic and students' learning outlook (Frost, 2016,3). For institutions where unethical practices are rife, ethical champions should demonstrate that ethical behaviour is beneficial and possible. The chapter will build on ethical leaders who showed resilience and courage in developing a model power infrastructure project in selected higher education institutions in Nigeria.engGlobethics PublicationsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Ethical leadershipsocial rules of practiceNigeriaHigher Education InstitutionsEducation and ethicsBook chapter