Undocumented Alteration Successor Design Engineer
Class
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#UndocumentedAlterationSuccessorDesignEngineer
Definition
A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer is retained by a client to review and redesign a project using a prior engineer's sealed plans as a guide, makes substantial design changes across multiple plan sheets without documenting the changes, without signing or sealing the altered sheets, and without communicating with the original engineer of record — leaving the prior engineer's seal and signature intact while purporting to accept responsibility for 'revisions' via a vague title-sheet notation, generating obligations of proper documentation, peer communication, independent sealing of altered work, and protection of the public from misleading plan authorship.
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Definition
A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer is retained by a client to review and redesign a project using a prior engineer's sealed plans as a guide, makes substantial design changes across multiple plan sheets without documenting the changes, without signing or sealing the altered sheets, and without communicating with the original engineer of record — leaving the prior engineer's seal and signature intact while purporting to accept responsibility for 'revisions' via a vague title-sheet notation, generating obligations of proper documentation, peer communication, independent sealing of altered work, and protection of the public from misleading plan authorship.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer, under management pressure and in the absence of the engineer of record, makes changes to engineering design documents prepared and sealed by another engineer without that engineer's knowledge, consultation, or approval, bearing obligations to refrain from modifying another engineer's sealed work without conferring with and obtaining approval from the responsible engineer, and to document any changes made.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer B reviewed the original drawings, made changes on the grading plans, including deletion of one sheet, raising the elevation of the housing pads and changing routing of the street
TTL
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Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
9193e5ec13124b06...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
173
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-03-01T14:15:16.534816+00:00
First Discovered In Case
173
Generated
2026-03-01T14:15:16.534816+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 173 Extraction