DP3

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DP3

Does the landscape architect's specification authority relieve Engineer Jaylani and Cutting Edge Engineering of independent professional responsibility for the environmental consequences of executing that specification, or does the MEP engineer retain an independent duty to evaluate and disclose known water table risks?

Whether the landscape architect's authority to specify the traditional irrigation system relieves Cutting Edge Engineering and Engineer Jaylani of independent professional responsibility for evaluating and disclosing the environmental consequences of executing that specification — specifically the hydrogeological study's documented water table depletion risk — or whether the MEP engineer retains an independent duty to flag sustainability risks falling within their own technical competence regardless of which discipline originated the specification.

Independently evaluate the hydrogeological study's water table findings within the MEP engineer's technical competence and communicate those findings to the Resort Development Client and the landscape architect, regardless of the landscape architect's specification authority over the irrigation system type

Defer entirely to the landscape architect's specification authority and execute the traditional irrigation design without independently evaluating or disclosing the hydrogeological study's water table findings, treating the interdisciplinary scope boundary as resolving the disclosure question

Professional Scope Boundary Question Re Landscape Architect Specification