Engineer A Environmental Principal Sustainable Development Code Calibration Current Case
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/83#Engineer_A_Environmental_Principal_Sustainable_Development_Code_Calibration_Current_Case
Properties
Instance of
SustainableDevelopmentCodeEncouragementvs.ObligationCalibrationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#SustainableDevelopmentCodeEncouragementvs.ObligationCalibrationObligation
Case context
Environmental assessment adjacent to protected wetlands; NSPE Code Section III.2.d. amended from 'shall strive' to 'are encouraged' in July 2007; Board reviewing the amended language as a matter of first impression
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.8
Importance
medium
Obligated party
Engineer A (environmental engineering firm principal, current case)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to recognize that NSPE Code Section III.2.d., as amended in July 2007, establishes an encouragement to adhere to sustainable development principles — not a strict mandatory obligation — while still treating those principles as a weighty consideration in environmental engineering practice that informed the scope of disclosure obligations in the environmental assessment context, including the obligation to include the threatened species finding in the written report.
Temporal scope
At the time of conducting the environmental assessment and preparing the written report
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
NSPE Code Section III.2.d. Encouraged Language Ambiguity
derivedFromPrinciple
Sustainable Development Obligation Invoked in Environmental Assessment
Source Evidence
Source text
Thereafter, in July 2007, the NSPE House of Delegates voted to modify the language in NSPE Code Section III.2.d. to state that 'engineers are encouraged to adhere to the principles of sustainable development in order to protect the environment for future generations.'
Text references
NSPE Code Section III.2.d. places some additional responsibilities on engineers for the protection of environment.
Thereafter, in July 2007, the NSPE House of Delegates voted to modify the language in NSPE Code Section III.2.d. to state that 'engineers are encouraged to adhere to the principles of sustainable development in order to protect the environment for future generations.'
With this added language a further clarification, the NSPE Board of Ethical Review will review this language as a matter of first impression and in the context of other language in the NSPE Code and earlier NSPE Board of Ethical Review Opinions.
TTL
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proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A (environmental engineering firm principal, current case)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Sustainable Development Code Encouragement vs. Obligation Calibration Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to recognize that NSPE Code Section III.2.d., as amended in July 2007, establishes an encouragement to adhere to sustainable development principles — not a strict mandatory obligation — while still treating those principles as a weighty consideration in environmental engineering practice that informed the scope of disclosure obligations in the environmental assessment context, including the obligation to include the threatened species finding in the written report." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Thereafter, in July 2007, the NSPE House of Delegates voted to modify the language in NSPE Code Section III.2.d. to state that 'engineers are encouraged to adhere to the principles of sustainable development in order to protect the environment for future generations.'" ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of conducting the environmental assessment and preparing the written report" ;
proeth:textreferences "NSPE Code Section III.2.d. places some additional responsibilities on engineers for the protection of environment.",
"Thereafter, in July 2007, the NSPE House of Delegates voted to modify the language in NSPE Code Section III.2.d. to state that 'engineers are encouraged to adhere to the principles of sustainable development in order to protect the environment for future generations.'",
"With this added language a further clarification, the NSPE Board of Ethical Review will review this language as a matter of first impression and in the context of other language in the NSPE Code and earlier NSPE Board of Ethical Review Opinions." ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
83
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-27T19:06:22.018248+00:00
First case
83
Generated
2026-02-27T19:06:22.018248+00:00
Attributed to
Case 83 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T19:15:08.548195
Generated by
ProEthica Case 83 Extraction