Climate-Informed Design Obligation Activation State
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Climate-InformedDesignObligationActivationState
Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer, engaged on a project with foreseeable future climate and weather impacts on public health, safety, and welfare, has formed a professional judgment that existing regulatory requirements and historical climate data are insufficient to protect the public under projected future conditions — and that a detailed, complex technical evaluation of future climate conditions is warranted — thereby activating an obligation to engage the client in discussions about that evaluation, disclose potential impacts to regulatory agencies and the public, and withdraw if the client refuses both evaluation and disclosure.
Properties
Subclass of
Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer, engaged on a project with foreseeable future climate and weather impacts on public health, safety, and welfare, has formed a professional judgment that existing regulatory requirements and historical climate data are insufficient to protect the public under projected future conditions — and that a detailed, complex technical evaluation of future climate conditions is warranted — thereby activating an obligation to engage the client in discussions about that evaluation, disclose potential impacts to regulatory agencies and the public, and withdraw if the client refuses both evaluation and disclosure.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer A does have an ethical obligation to address the impacts of the project on public health, safety, and welfare regardless of whether or not that is required by applicable law
TTL
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rdfs:comment "State in which a licensed professional engineer, engaged on a project with foreseeable future climate and weather impacts on public health, safety, and welfare, has formed a professional judgment that existing regulatory requirements and historical climate data are insufficient to protect the public under projected future conditions — and that a detailed, complex technical evaluation of future climate conditions is warranted — thereby activating an obligation to engage the client in discussions about that evaluation, disclose potential impacts to regulatory agencies and the public, and withdraw if the client refuses both evaluation and disclosure." ;
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Metadata
Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
b6dd4ce5300f8623...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
88
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-26T00:10:17.210310+00:00
First Discovered In Case
88
Generated
2026-02-26T00:10:17.210310+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 88 Extraction