Engineer A Project Withdrawal If Competence Concerns Unmet Obligation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/110#Engineer_A_Project_Withdrawal_If_Competence_Concerns_Unmet_Obligation
Properties
Instance of
ClientSafetyViolationInsistenceorProjectWithdrawalObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ClientSafetyViolationInsistenceorProjectWithdrawalObligation
Case context
The Board prescribed project withdrawal as the final recourse for Engineer A if all escalation steps failed to address the competence concern about Engineer B on the design/build industrial facility project.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated, if escalation to the contractor-client and authorities failed to resolve the competence concern about Engineer B's structural footing design, to withdraw from the project rather than continue participation in a project where an incompetent engineer was performing safety-critical structural design.
Temporal scope
Conditionally, after exhausting escalation to contractor-client and authorities without resolution of the competence concern
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Public Safety at Risk from Incompetent Structural Footing Design
Source Evidence
Source text
if necessary, withdraw from the project if his concerns are not met.
Text references
If Engineer B refuses to acquiesce to Engineer A's recommendation, Engineer A has an obligation under the Code to bring the matter to the attention of his client and to the authorities as appropriate, and if necessary, withdraw from the project if his concerns are not met.
if necessary, withdraw from the project if his concerns are not met.
TTL
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case110:Engineer_A_Project_Withdrawal_If_Competence_Concerns_Unmet_Obligation a proeth:ClientSafetyViolationInsistenceorProjectWithdrawalObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Project Withdrawal If Competence Concerns Unmet Obligation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case110:Engineer_A_Client_and_Authority_Escalation_Upon_Engineer_B_Refusal_Obligation ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case110:Public_Safety_at_Risk_from_Incompetent_Structural_Footing_Design ;
proeth:casecontext "The Board prescribed project withdrawal as the final recourse for Engineer A if all escalation steps failed to address the competence concern about Engineer B on the design/build industrial facility project." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case110:Project_Withdrawal_as_Ethical_Recourse_Applied_to_Engineer_A_If_Concerns_Unmet,
case110:Public_Welfare_Paramount_Invoked_in_Structural_Footing_Competence_Context ;
proeth:discoveredincase "110" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T10:19:49.626913+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "110" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T10:19:49.626913+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Client Safety Violation Insistence or Project Withdrawal Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated, if escalation to the contractor-client and authorities failed to resolve the competence concern about Engineer B's structural footing design, to withdraw from the project rather than continue participation in a project where an incompetent engineer was performing safety-critical structural design." ;
proeth:sourcetext "if necessary, withdraw from the project if his concerns are not met." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Conditionally, after exhausting escalation to contractor-client and authorities without resolution of the competence concern" ;
proeth:textreferences "If Engineer B refuses to acquiesce to Engineer A's recommendation, Engineer A has an obligation under the Code to bring the matter to the attention of his client and to the authorities as appropriate, and if necessary, withdraw from the project if his concerns are not met.",
"if necessary, withdraw from the project if his concerns are not met." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 110 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T10:30:44.204637"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 110 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
110
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T10:19:49.626913+00:00
First case
110
Generated
2026-03-01T10:19:49.626913+00:00
Attributed to
Case 110 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T10:30:44.204637
Generated by
ProEthica Case 110 Extraction