Client-Rejected Engineer Safety Elevation Recommendation State
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Client-RejectedEngineerSafetyElevationRecommendationState
Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer has formed and communicated a specific, technically grounded recommendation that a project be designed to a higher safety standard — such as a 100-year storm surge elevation — based on newly released data and algorithms, and the client has explicitly refused to adopt that recommendation on cost grounds, creating direct and unresolved tension between the client's economic authority over project scope and the engineer's professional obligation to protect public health, safety, and welfare.
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Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer has formed and communicated a specific, technically grounded recommendation that a project be designed to a higher safety standard — such as a 100-year storm surge elevation — based on newly released data and algorithms, and the client has explicitly refused to adopt that recommendation on cost grounds, creating direct and unresolved tension between the client's economic authority over project scope and the engineer's professional obligation to protect public health, safety, and welfare.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] State in which a client authority has been formally presented with a professional engineer's documented safety recommendation — including specific treatment requirements necessary to prevent public health harm — and has explicitly decided to proceed with the project while deferring the recommended safety measures to a later date, creating direct tension between client decision-making authority and the engineer's obligations to protect public health and safety.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer A believes the residential development project should be built to a 100-year projected storm surge elevation, due to public safety risks even at lower projections of future surge level rise.
TTL
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rdfs:comment "State in which a licensed professional engineer has formed and communicated a specific, technically grounded recommendation that a project be designed to a higher safety standard — such as a 100-year storm surge elevation — based on newly released data and algorithms, and the client has explicitly refused to adopt that recommendation on cost grounds, creating direct and unresolved tension between the client's economic authority over project scope and the engineer's professional obligation to protect public health, safety, and welfare." ;
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Metadata
Ontology
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Class
Content Hash
2b7ee9c9de4e4f90...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
87
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-02-27T15:31:33.548526+00:00
First Discovered In Case
87
Generated
2026-02-27T15:31:33.548526+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 87 Extraction