Engineer A Dual-Role Ethical Boundary Recognition Road Project

O · Obligation Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/105#Engineer_A_Dual-Role_Ethical_Boundary_Recognition_Road_Project
Properties
Instance of
Part-TimeMunicipalEngineerDual-RoleAdvisory-DesignEthicalPermissibilityBoundaryObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Part-TimeMunicipalEngineerDual-RoleAdvisory-DesignEthicalPermissibilityBoundaryObligation
Case context
Engineer A's situation differed from BER Case 01-11 (WXY Engineers as city engineer performing design on separate projects without self-review) because Engineer A would be reviewing his own advisory work on the same road project where he evaluated Engineer B.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.85
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (Part-Time Town Engineer and Private Consultant)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to recognize that the instant case fell outside the permissible dual-role precedents established in BER Cases 63-5, 74-2, and 01-11, because the combination of prior advisory role, evaluative role over the terminated contractor, and the self-review problem on the same project created a structural conflict not curable by disclosure — distinguishing this situation from cases where advisory and design roles on separate projects or without self-review were found permissible.
Temporal scope
Upon considering whether to offer or accept the road design contract from Smithtown
Source Evidence
Source text
contrary to the situation in BER Case 01-11, the performance of such services by Engineer A potentially places him in the situation of reviewing his own work.

Text references
The Board does not believe that the disclosure of any further circumstances (e.g., private work in town for a developer, reviewing its own work) would be sufficient to avoid a conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest.
contrary to the situation in BER Case 01-11, the performance of such services by Engineer A potentially places him in the situation of reviewing his own work.
the Board also concluded that it would be ethical for Engineer A and his firm WXY to serve as city engineer for City H and perform general consulting services and design services on individual projects under circumstances where those services did not include reviewing the work of Engineer A's firm.
TTL
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Metadata
Type
Individual
Last Updated
2026-05-28 16:26
Discovered in case
105
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T08:39:29.944672+00:00
First case
105
Generated
2026-02-28T08:39:29.944672+00:00
Attributed to
Case 105 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T08:46:32.094573
Generated by
ProEthica Case 105 Extraction