Engineer A Coastal Risk Assessment Cost-Benefit Safety Primacy Determination
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/87#Engineer_A_Coastal_Risk_Assessment_Cost-Benefit_Safety_Primacy_Determination
Properties
Instance of
Cost-BenefitSafetyPrimacyDeterminationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Cost-BenefitSafetyPrimacyDeterminationObligation
Case context
Client A sought to reduce costs by building to a less stringent storm surge standard; Engineer A's professional determination established that safety must prevail over cost
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (coastal risk assessment)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to determine and communicate to Client A that the client's legitimate cost-reduction interest, when weighed against the apparent substantial risk to life and property from building below the 100-year storm surge elevation, must yield to the safety consideration.
Temporal scope
Upon Client A's cost-driven refusal to accept the 100-year storm surge elevation standard
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Public Welfare Paramount Invoked by Engineer A Coastal Risk Assessment
Source Evidence
Source text
While the desire of the developer to reduce costs is understandable and a legitimate consideration, when weighed against the apparent substantial risk to life and property, the latter consideration should prevail.
Text references
While the desire of the developer to reduce costs is understandable and a legitimate consideration, when weighed against the apparent substantial risk to life and property, the latter consideration should prevail.
TTL
@prefix case87: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/87#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> .
@prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
case87:Engineer_A_Coastal_Risk_Assessment_Cost-Benefit_Safety_Primacy_Determination a proeth:Cost-BenefitSafetyPrimacyDeterminationObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Coastal Risk Assessment Cost-Benefit Safety Primacy Determination" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case87:Engineer_A_Coastal_Risk_Assessment_100-Year_Storm_Surge_Design_Standard_Recommendation ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case87:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Written_Risk_Notification_Storm_Surge_Obligation ;
proeth:casecontext "Client A sought to reduce costs by building to a less stringent storm surge standard; Engineer A's professional determination established that safety must prevail over cost" ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case87:Public_Welfare_Paramount_Invoked_by_Engineer_A_Coastal_Risk_Assessment ;
proeth:discoveredincase "87" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-27T15:43:01.811893+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "87" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-27T15:43:01.811893+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A (coastal risk assessment)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Cost-Benefit Safety Primacy Determination Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to determine and communicate to Client A that the client's legitimate cost-reduction interest, when weighed against the apparent substantial risk to life and property from building below the 100-year storm surge elevation, must yield to the safety consideration." ;
proeth:sourcetext "While the desire of the developer to reduce costs is understandable and a legitimate consideration, when weighed against the apparent substantial risk to life and property, the latter consideration should prevail." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon Client A's cost-driven refusal to accept the 100-year storm surge elevation standard" ;
proeth:textreferences "While the desire of the developer to reduce costs is understandable and a legitimate consideration, when weighed against the apparent substantial risk to life and property, the latter consideration should prevail." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 87 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T16:34:23.745923"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 87 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
87
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-27T15:43:01.811893+00:00
First case
87
Generated
2026-02-27T15:43:01.811893+00:00
Attributed to
Case 87 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T16:34:23.745923
Generated by
ProEthica Case 87 Extraction