Engineers A B BER 79-2 Landfill Design Professional Judgment Trade-Off
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/94#Engineers_A_B_BER_79-2_Landfill_Design_Professional_Judgment_Trade-Off
Properties
Instance of
ProfessionalJudgmentEnvironmentalTrade-OffFinalArbiterObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ProfessionalJudgmentEnvironmentalTrade-OffFinalArbiterObligation
Case context
Engineers A and B collaborated on redesigning the existing sanitary landfill at higher final contours in accordance with state environmental laws, incorporating minimum setbacks and maximum allowable slopes, resulting in a design more than 100 feet higher than originally proposed — a decision publicly challenged by Engineer C as environmentally unsound.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineers A and B (BER 79-2)
Obligation statement
Engineers A and B were obligated to apply professional judgment as the final arbiter of the best balance between the town's need for landfill capacity and the environmental risks of the higher-level design, recognizing that no finite answer exists to such trade-offs and that their honest application of professional judgment — even producing a controversial outcome — constituted ethical conduct.
Temporal scope
During the design and redesign process for the sanitary landfill
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
BER 79-2 Landfill Design Public Controversy
derivedFromPrinciple
Professional Judgment Final Arbiter Landfill Design BER 79-2
Source Evidence
Source text
there is no finite answer to the balance or 'trade-off' which is involved in the overall concerns about environmental dangers for particular projects.
Text references
Engineers A and B had acted ethically by participating in the design approach requested by the town council
professional judgment will be the final arbiter of the best balance between society's needs for certain facilities and the level of environmental degradation which may be unavoidable in filling those basic needs.
there is no finite answer to the balance or 'trade-off' which is involved in the overall concerns about environmental dangers for particular projects.
TTL
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proeth:obligationstatement "Engineers A and B were obligated to apply professional judgment as the final arbiter of the best balance between the town's need for landfill capacity and the environmental risks of the higher-level design, recognizing that no finite answer exists to such trade-offs and that their honest application of professional judgment — even producing a controversial outcome — constituted ethical conduct." ;
proeth:sourcetext "there is no finite answer to the balance or 'trade-off' which is involved in the overall concerns about environmental dangers for particular projects." ;
proeth:temporalscope "During the design and redesign process for the sanitary landfill" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineers A and B had acted ethically by participating in the design approach requested by the town council",
"professional judgment will be the final arbiter of the best balance between society's needs for certain facilities and the level of environmental degradation which may be unavoidable in filling those basic needs.",
"there is no finite answer to the balance or 'trade-off' which is involved in the overall concerns about environmental dangers for particular projects." ;
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
94
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T19:03:38.568991+00:00
First case
94
Generated
2026-02-28T19:03:38.568991+00:00
Attributed to
Case 94 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T19:13:05.768673
Generated by
ProEthica Case 94 Extraction