Client Loyalty Violated By Engineer B Deficient Design Delivery
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/12#Client_Loyalty_Violated_By_Engineer_B_Deficient_Design_Delivery
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
County A Municipal Infrastructure Client
Rural roadway design contract
Balancing with
Professional Competence limitations
Concrete expression
Engineer B failed to faithfully serve County A's interests by delivering a deficient roadway design with miscalculated quantities and significant errors, requiring extensive field revisions and County staff effort to resolve, despite having contractually committed to provide adequate design services
Confidence
0.88
Importance
medium
Interpretation
Client loyalty requires engineers to execute contracted work competently and diligently; accepting a contract one cannot competently perform is itself a violation of client loyalty because it deprives the client of the faithful service they contracted for
Invoked by
Engineer B Rural Roadway Design Engineer
Tension resolution
Client loyalty obligation was violated — Engineer B's acceptance of work outside their competence domain and delivery of a deficient design product failed to serve County A's interests faithfully
Source Evidence
Source text
A significant number of field revisions were necessary and estimated quantities of work had been miscalculated, resulting in excessive time and effort for the County to resolve.
Text references
A significant number of field revisions were necessary and estimated quantities of work had been miscalculated, resulting in excessive time and effort for the County to resolve.
Engineer B completed the design project, the County bid the project and then proceeded into construction.
The County grew increasingly frustrated with the quality of work provided by Engineer B.
Through the efforts of the County staff, the project was able to remain within its budget.
TTL
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case12:Client_Loyalty_Violated_By_Engineer_B_Deficient_Design_Delivery a proeth:ClientLoyalty,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Client Loyalty Violated By Engineer B Deficient Design Delivery" ;
proeth:appliedto "County A Municipal Infrastructure Client",
"Rural roadway design contract" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Professional Competence limitations" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer B failed to faithfully serve County A's interests by delivering a deficient roadway design with miscalculated quantities and significant errors, requiring extensive field revisions and County staff effort to resolve, despite having contractually committed to provide adequate design services" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "12" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-24T19:49:41.293858+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "12" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-24T19:49:41.293858+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:interpretation "Client loyalty requires engineers to execute contracted work competently and diligently; accepting a contract one cannot competently perform is itself a violation of client loyalty because it deprives the client of the faithful service they contracted for" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer B Rural Roadway Design Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Client Loyalty" ;
proeth:sourcetext "A significant number of field revisions were necessary and estimated quantities of work had been miscalculated, resulting in excessive time and effort for the County to resolve." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Client loyalty obligation was violated — Engineer B's acceptance of work outside their competence domain and delivery of a deficient design product failed to serve County A's interests faithfully" ;
proeth:textreferences "A significant number of field revisions were necessary and estimated quantities of work had been miscalculated, resulting in excessive time and effort for the County to resolve.",
"Engineer B completed the design project, the County bid the project and then proceeded into construction.",
"The County grew increasingly frustrated with the quality of work provided by Engineer B.",
"Through the efforts of the County staff, the project was able to remain within its budget." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 12 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-24T20:03:54.185187"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 12 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
12
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-24T19:49:41.293858+00:00
First case
12
Generated
2026-02-24T19:49:41.293858+00:00
Attributed to
Case 12 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-24T20:03:54.185187
Generated by
ProEthica Case 12 Extraction