Structural Engineer Building Sale Inspector
R · Role
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/18#Structural_Engineer_Building_Sale_Inspector
Definition
Inspected a building about to be sold; was confidentially informed of mechanical and electrical code violations by the owner; made only brief mention of violations in report and did not report to third parties; BER concluded engineer had duty to report to appropriate authority
Properties
Instance of
PublicHealthRiskReportingEngineer
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PublicHealthRiskReportingEngineer
Attributes
| license | Professional Engineer |
| specialty | Structural engineering |
| limitation | Not qualified to address mechanical and electrical engineering issues |
| case_reference | BER Case 89-7 |
Confidence
0.85
Importance
medium
Relationships
| type | client |
| target | Building Sale Inspection Client |
| type | reports_to |
| target | Appropriate Authority |
Role category
public_responsibility
Source Evidence
Source text
a structural engineer inspected a building that was about to be sold
Text references
The structural engineer made only brief mention of the potential mechanical and electrical violations in the project report
a structural engineer inspected a building that was about to be sold
the BER concluded that the engineer had a duty to report the potential code violations to the appropriate authority
was apprised confidentially by the owner that, although the building was structurally sound, there were mechanical and electrical code violations
TTL
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case18:Structural_Engineer_Building_Sale_Inspector a proeth:PublicHealthRiskReportingEngineer,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Structural Engineer Building Sale Inspector" ;
proeth-core:adheresToPrinciple case18:Completeness_in_Responsive_Technical_Testimony_Invoked_By_Structural_Engineer_Building_Inspection ;
proeth-core:hasObligation case18:StructuralEngineer_ConfidentialityVsPublicSafetyObligation,
case18:Structural_Engineer_Building_Sale_Code_Violation_Reporting_Obligation ;
proeth:attributes "{'license': 'Professional Engineer', 'specialty': 'Structural engineering', 'limitation': 'Not qualified to address mechanical and electrical engineering issues', 'case_reference': 'BER Case 89-7'}" ;
proeth:caseinvolvement "Inspected a building about to be sold; was confidentially informed of mechanical and electrical code violations by the owner; made only brief mention of violations in report and did not report to third parties; BER concluded engineer had duty to report to appropriate authority" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Role" ;
proeth:confidence "0.85" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "18" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T15:07:37.332072+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "18" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T15:07:37.332072+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:relationships "{'type': 'client', 'target': 'Building Sale Inspection Client'}",
"{'type': 'reports_to', 'target': 'Appropriate Authority'}" ;
proeth:rolecategory "public_responsibility" ;
proeth:roleclass "Public Health Risk Reporting Engineer" ;
proeth:sourcetext "a structural engineer inspected a building that was about to be sold" ;
proeth:textreferences "The structural engineer made only brief mention of the potential mechanical and electrical violations in the project report",
"a structural engineer inspected a building that was about to be sold",
"the BER concluded that the engineer had a duty to report the potential code violations to the appropriate authority",
"was apprised confidentially by the owner that, although the building was structurally sound, there were mechanical and electrical code violations" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 18 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T15:25:32.278968"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 18 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
18
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T15:07:37.332072+00:00
First case
18
Generated
2026-02-25T15:07:37.332072+00:00
Attributed to
Case 18 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T15:25:32.278968
Generated by
ProEthica Case 18 Extraction