halcrow group employs 4,500 people in britain -- most of them engineers.ey work on construction sites around the world. bribery is common practice in the building sector, so halcrow has taken to training its staff at least once a year so everyone knows what's allowed. >> recognizing an approach, it could come in a very innocent way, or innocent looking way. and so its about ensuring that our people dont expose themselves and the company by getting sucked into a position whereby they have unwittingly engaged in corrupt practice. >> halcrow employees are neither allowed to accept gifts, nor to hand them out. >> particularly with government clients, we dont even offer tea or coffee or water at a meeting because we know that their policies actually forbid them from accepting them. >> halcrow is playing it safe. british officials hope that stiff penalties will act as a deterrent. but the serious fraud office, the bribery act's main enforcer, has had its budget cut -- and, so far, no major case has gone to court. >> so having a law and actually implementing it a