Engineer A Climate Regulatory Gap Disclosure Client B Tidal Crossing
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/88#Engineer_A_Climate_Regulatory_Gap_Disclosure_Client_B_Tidal_Crossing
Properties
Instance of
Climate-AdjustedRegulatoryGapRiskDisclosureObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Climate-AdjustedRegulatoryGapRiskDisclosureObligation
Case context
Engineer A identified that local development regulations and national design codes had not been updated to reflect climate change effects, and that the proposed tidal crossing upgrade may accelerate uninhabitability of upstream homes by a decade or more.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to disclose to Client B that the locally required 25-year fresh-water storm design standard does not account for climate change effects — including sea level rise and changed precipitation intensities — and that regulatory compliance with the outdated standard does not ensure that the tidal crossing upgrade will be safe for upstream homeowners over the project's design life.
Temporal scope
Upon identifying the regulatory gap and before proceeding with design under the outdated standard
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Regulatory Standard Climate Gap - Tidal Crossing Project
derivedFromPrinciple
Regulatory Gap Awareness Invoked for Climate Change and Existing Standards
Source Evidence
Source text
The local development regulations and national design codes and standards have not yet been updated to reflect changing conditions and weather patterns, including effects of sea level rise and changes in precipitation intensities and recurrence intervals effected by on-going climate change.
Text references
Local development regulations require designing for a 25-year fresh-water storm, and assume that future weather conditions will be consistent with updated historical data.
The local development regulations and national design codes and standards have not yet been updated to reflect changing conditions and weather patterns, including effects of sea level rise and changes in precipitation intensities and recurrence intervals effected by on-going climate change.
TTL
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proeth:casecontext "Engineer A identified that local development regulations and national design codes had not been updated to reflect climate change effects, and that the proposed tidal crossing upgrade may accelerate uninhabitability of upstream homes by a decade or more." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
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proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
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proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "88" ;
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proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Climate-Adjusted Regulatory Gap Risk Disclosure Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to disclose to Client B that the locally required 25-year fresh-water storm design standard does not account for climate change effects — including sea level rise and changed precipitation intensities — and that regulatory compliance with the outdated standard does not ensure that the tidal crossing upgrade will be safe for upstream homeowners over the project's design life." ;
proeth:sourcetext "The local development regulations and national design codes and standards have not yet been updated to reflect changing conditions and weather patterns, including effects of sea level rise and changes in precipitation intensities and recurrence intervals effected by on-going climate change." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon identifying the regulatory gap and before proceeding with design under the outdated standard" ;
proeth:textreferences "Local development regulations require designing for a 25-year fresh-water storm, and assume that future weather conditions will be consistent with updated historical data.",
"The local development regulations and national design codes and standards have not yet been updated to reflect changing conditions and weather patterns, including effects of sea level rise and changes in precipitation intensities and recurrence intervals effected by on-going climate change." ;
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
88
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-26T00:15:23.499283+00:00
First case
88
Generated
2026-02-26T00:15:23.499283+00:00
Attributed to
Case 88 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-26T00:31:11.063682
Generated by
ProEthica Case 88 Extraction