Engineer A Competence Reporter Footing Concerns
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/121#Engineer_A_Competence_Reporter_Footing_Concerns
Definition
Engineer A, working on the same design/build project, recognized that Engineer B lacked the competence to design structural footings and reported those concerns to the contractor, fulfilling the obligation to act when another practitioner's qualifications are in doubt.
Properties
Instance of
CompetenceRecognitionPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CompetenceRecognitionPrinciple
Applied to
Engineer B's structural footing design assignment
Balancing with
Collegial Notification Principle
Concrete expression
Engineer A, working on the same design/build project, recognized that Engineer B lacked the competence to design structural footings and reported those concerns to the contractor, fulfilling the obligation to act when another practitioner's qualifications are in doubt.
Confidence
0.92
Interpretation
Recognizing and reporting competence concerns about another engineer on the same project is an affirmative professional obligation, not merely a permissible act. The Board held that Engineer A had an ethical responsibility to question Engineer B's competency and report concerns.
Tension resolution
The obligation to protect the public from incompetent work overrides any collegial reluctance to question another engineer's qualifications. Reporting to the contractor was the appropriate channel given the project structure.
Match Confidence
0.95
Match Reasoning
Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Competence Recognition Principle'
Matched Ontology Label
Competence Recognition Principle
Matches Existing
true
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer A
Source Evidence
Text references
Engineer A had reservations concerning the competence of Engineer B to design the structural footings and reported his concerns to the contractor.
The Board decided that it would be unethical for Engineer B to perform the design of the structural footings as part of the facility and that Engineer A had an ethical responsibility to question Engineer B's competency and report his concerns to the contractor.
Source text
Engineer A had an ethical responsibility to question Engineer B's competency and report his concerns to the contractor.
TTL
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@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
case121:Engineer_A_Competence_Reporter_Footing_Concerns a proeth:CompetenceRecognitionPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Competence Reporter Footing Concerns" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case121:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth:appliedTo "Engineer B's structural footing design assignment" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Collegial Notification Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer A, working on the same design/build project, recognized that Engineer B lacked the competence to design structural footings and reported those concerns to the contractor, fulfilling the obligation to act when another practitioner's qualifications are in doubt." ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:interpretation "Recognizing and reporting competence concerns about another engineer on the same project is an affirmative professional obligation, not merely a permissible act. The Board held that Engineer A had an ethical responsibility to question Engineer B's competency and report concerns." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A" ;
proeth:principleClass "Competence Recognition Principle" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "The obligation to protect the public from incompetent work overrides any collegial reluctance to question another engineer's qualifications. Reporting to the contractor was the appropriate channel given the project structure." ;
proeth:textReferences "Engineer A had reservations concerning the competence of Engineer B to design the structural footings and reported his concerns to the contractor.",
"The Board decided that it would be unethical for Engineer B to perform the design of the structural footings as part of the facility and that Engineer A had an ethical responsibility to question Engineer B's competency and report his concerns to the contractor." ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 121 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "discussion" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T18:48:00.517540+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 121 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.95 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Competence Recognition Principle'" ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass proeth:CompetenceRecognitionPrinciple ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Competence Recognition Principle" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "Engineer A had an ethical responsibility to question Engineer B's competency and report his concerns to the contractor." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A, working on the same design/build project, recognized that Engineer B lacked the competence to design structural footings and reported those concerns to the contractor, fulfilling the obligation to act when another practitioner's qualifications are in doubt." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A, working on the same design/build project, recognized that Engineer B lacked the competence to design structural footings and reported those concerns to the contractor, fulfilling the obligation to act when another practitioner's qualifications are in doubt." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T18:48:00.517540+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 121 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 121 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
121
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-06-04T18:48:00.517540+00:00
First case
121
Generated
2026-06-04T18:48:00.517540+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 121 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 121 Extraction