Engineer A Advisory Role Integrity Breach
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/14#Engineer_A_Advisory_Role_Integrity_Breach
Definition
Engineer A's advisory role required independence from personal interest, but Engineer A allowed the prospect of subsequent construction services work to shape the scope and content of the advisory memo, recommending the delivery method most favorable to Engineer A's own engagement.
Properties
Instance of
AdvisoryRoleIntegrityPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#AdvisoryRoleIntegrityPrinciple
Applied to
Advisory recommendation to City B Municipal Client on project delivery method
Balancing with
Complete Options Analysis Principle
Conflict of Interest Disclosure Principle
Concrete expression
Engineer A's advisory role required independence from personal interest, but Engineer A allowed the prospect of subsequent construction services work to shape the scope and content of the advisory memo, recommending the delivery method most favorable to Engineer A's own engagement.
Confidence
0.9
Interpretation
An engineer serving in a purely advisory capacity must not allow interest in obtaining subsequent work to shape the advice given; doing so corrupts the advisory relationship and deprives the client of the independent judgment they sought.
Tension resolution
The BER found that the self-serving recommendation violated the advisory role; Engineer A should have either disclosed the interest and recused from the advisory role or provided genuinely independent analysis.
Match Confidence
0.0
Matches Existing
false
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer A
Source Evidence
Text references
Both aspects of the conduct were unethical in the view of the BER
by providing only a partial, comparative engineering evaluation with no analysis and a recommendation to Engineer A's benefit, the conduct constituted both incomplete and self-serving information
Source text
by providing only a partial, comparative engineering evaluation with no analysis and a recommendation to Engineer A's benefit, the conduct constituted both incomplete and self-serving information (as in 95-5 and 99-8) and the extension of free services.
TTL
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case14:Engineer_A_Advisory_Role_Integrity_Breach a proeth:AdvisoryRoleIntegrityPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Advisory Role Integrity Breach" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case14:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth:appliedTo "Advisory recommendation to City B Municipal Client on project delivery method" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Complete Options Analysis Principle",
"Conflict of Interest Disclosure Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer A's advisory role required independence from personal interest, but Engineer A allowed the prospect of subsequent construction services work to shape the scope and content of the advisory memo, recommending the delivery method most favorable to Engineer A's own engagement." ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:interpretation "An engineer serving in a purely advisory capacity must not allow interest in obtaining subsequent work to shape the advice given; doing so corrupts the advisory relationship and deprives the client of the independent judgment they sought." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A Delivery Advisor Incomplete" ;
proeth:principleClass "Advisory Role Integrity Principle" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "The BER found that the self-serving recommendation violated the advisory role; Engineer A should have either disclosed the interest and recused from the advisory role or provided genuinely independent analysis." ;
proeth:textReferences "Both aspects of the conduct were unethical in the view of the BER",
"by providing only a partial, comparative engineering evaluation with no analysis and a recommendation to Engineer A's benefit, the conduct constituted both incomplete and self-serving information" ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 14 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "discussion" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T08:46:54.906706+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 14 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.0 ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting false ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "by providing only a partial, comparative engineering evaluation with no analysis and a recommendation to Engineer A's benefit, the conduct constituted both incomplete and self-serving information (as in 95-5 and 99-8) and the extension of free services." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A's advisory role required independence from personal interest, but Engineer A allowed the prospect of subsequent construction services work to shape the scope and content of the advisory memo, recommending the delivery method most favorable to Engineer A's own engagement." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A's advisory role required independence from personal interest, but Engineer A allowed the prospect of subsequent construction services work to shape the scope and content of the advisory memo, recommending the delivery method most favorable to Engineer A's own engagement." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T08:46:54.906706+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 14 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 14 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
14
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-06-04T08:46:54.906706+00:00
First case
14
Generated
2026-06-04T08:46:54.906706+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 14 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 14 Extraction