Engineer B Fundamental Redesign Full Design Accountability Assumption Case 82-5
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/173#Engineer_B_Fundamental_Redesign_Full_Design_Accountability_Assumption_Case_82-5
Properties
Instance of
FundamentalRedesignFullDesignAccountabilityAssumptionObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FundamentalRedesignFullDesignAccountabilityAssumptionObligation
Case context
Engineer B attempted to limit professional responsibility to only the specific items altered, while leaving Engineer A's seal to certify the remainder of the design, failing to recognize that fundamental changes to core elements affect the entire integrated design.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer B (Successor Design Engineer)
Obligation statement
Engineer B was obligated to acknowledge and assume professional accountability for the entire integrated subdivision design — not merely for the discrete modifications made — because Engineer B made fundamental changes to core design elements including grading plans, housing pad elevations, street routing, storm drain systems, pipe dimensions, sewers, and utilities, which had cascading impacts on the efficacy and integrity of the whole project.
Temporal scope
Upon making fundamental changes to core design elements of the subdivision project
Source Evidence
Source text
we are troubled by Engineer B's failure to acknowledge responsibility for the full design by notations on the drawings. (See Section III.9.)
Text references
Engineer B seems to have taken the position that he would only assume responsibility for those changes which he had made by virtue of his modifications, failing to recognize the fact that once he began to make fundamental changes to certain aspects of the design, his modifications might have an overall impact upon the entire design of the project
This suggests a lack of recognition on the part of Engineer B that his modifications in the design might have a significant impact upon the efficacy and integrity of the entire project design
we are troubled by Engineer B's failure to acknowledge responsibility for the full design by notations on the drawings. (See Section III.9.)
TTL
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case173:Engineer_B_Original_Seal_Removal_Upon_Material_Alteration_Public_Improvement_Plans ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case173:Engineer_B_Partial_Responsibility_Claim_for_Whole-Impact_Modifications ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case173:Engineer_B_Discharged_Engineer_Review_Without_Notification_Permissibility_Case_82-5 ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer B attempted to limit professional responsibility to only the specific items altered, while leaving Engineer A's seal to certify the remainder of the design, failing to recognize that fundamental changes to core elements affect the entire integrated design." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
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proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case173:Holistic_Design_Responsibility_Invoked_Against_Engineer_B_Subdivision_Redesign,
case173:Professional_Accountability_of_Engineer_B_for_Redesign_Decisions ;
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proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer B (Successor Design Engineer)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Fundamental Redesign Full Design Accountability Assumption Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer B was obligated to acknowledge and assume professional accountability for the entire integrated subdivision design — not merely for the discrete modifications made — because Engineer B made fundamental changes to core design elements including grading plans, housing pad elevations, street routing, storm drain systems, pipe dimensions, sewers, and utilities, which had cascading impacts on the efficacy and integrity of the whole project." ;
proeth:sourcetext "we are troubled by Engineer B's failure to acknowledge responsibility for the full design by notations on the drawings. (See Section III.9.)" ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon making fundamental changes to core design elements of the subdivision project" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer B seems to have taken the position that he would only assume responsibility for those changes which he had made by virtue of his modifications, failing to recognize the fact that once he began to make fundamental changes to certain aspects of the design, his modifications might have an overall impact upon the entire design of the project",
"This suggests a lack of recognition on the part of Engineer B that his modifications in the design might have a significant impact upon the efficacy and integrity of the entire project design",
"we are troubled by Engineer B's failure to acknowledge responsibility for the full design by notations on the drawings. (See Section III.9.)" ;
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
173
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T14:31:07.586453+00:00
First case
173
Generated
2026-03-01T14:31:07.586453+00:00
Attributed to
Case 173 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T14:41:54.510109
Generated by
ProEthica Case 173 Extraction