DP3

DecisionPoint
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DP3

Is the Owner obligated to ensure that the peer review of Engineer A's second tower designs is conducted through procedurally fair means, including notifying Engineer A before the review commences, rather than instructing Engineer B to conduct the review covertly?

The Owner instructs Engineer B to conduct the peer review of Engineer A's second tower designs without letting Engineer A know, thereby directing a covert peer review process. This decision point addresses whether the Owner bears an independent obligation to ensure the peer review is conducted through procedurally fair means — including notifying Engineer A before the review commences — and whether the Owner's instruction to conduct a covert review itself constitutes an ethical violation of the procedural fairness duty owed to Engineer A as a licensed professional whose reputation and livelihood are implicated.

Instruct Engineer B to conduct the peer review of Engineer A's second tower designs covertly without notifying Engineer A that the review is being conducted

Notify Engineer A that a peer review of the second tower designs has been commissioned before Engineer B commences any review activity, ensuring the review proceeds through procedurally fair means consistent with III.7.a

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