BER Case 02-5
Rs · Resource
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/12#BER_Case_02-5
Properties
Instance of
Confidence
0.97
Created by
NSPE Board of Ethical Review
Document title
NSPE Board of Ethical Review Case 02-5
Importance
high
Used by
Board of Ethical Review for analogical reasoning about competence standards
Used in context
Referenced to establish that an engineer competent in a field but unfamiliar with recently proposed (not yet standardized) design parameters was not acting unethically, distinguishing the threshold between competence and currency with emerging literature
Version
2002
Source Evidence
Source text
In BER Case 02-5, the Board studied a situation in which a structural engineer, competent in severe weather structural engineering, designed a building that had a structural failure from a severe weather condition.
Text references
In BER Case 02-5, the Board studied a situation in which a structural engineer, competent in severe weather structural engineering, designed a building that had a structural failure from a severe weather condition.
The Board concluded that it was not unethical for the engineer to fail to follow the most recent design parameters for structural design in severe weather areas published in the most recent technical literature, because those recently proposed design parameters had not yet become standards.
TTL
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
12
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-24T19:47:31.126909+00:00
First case
12
Generated
2026-02-24T19:47:31.126909+00:00
Attributed to
Case 12 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-24T20:03:54.182621
Generated by
ProEthica Case 12 Extraction