Structural Failure Harm Materialized State

Class 1188282c
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#StructuralFailureHarmMaterializedState
Definition

State in which a completed or partially completed structural engineering design has experienced a significant physical failure during construction, confirming that design errors caused actual harm — including property damage, project delay, and financial loss — and triggering obligations of investigation, redesign, accountability, and reporting against the responsible design engineer.

Properties
Subclass of
State
http://proethica.org/ontology/core#State
Definition
State in which a completed or partially completed structural engineering design has experienced a significant physical failure during construction, confirming that design errors caused actual harm — including property damage, project delay, and financial loss — and triggering obligations of investigation, redesign, accountability, and reporting against the responsible design engineer.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] State in which a completed engineering design, produced by a professional who lacked competence in the relevant domain, has been bid, entered construction, and is producing concrete adverse consequences — including field revisions, miscalculated quantities, and excessive remediation burden on the client — thereby confirming that the competence deficiency caused actual harm to the client and public project.
Source Evidence
Source Text
early during the process of constructing the basement there was a significant structural failure
TTL
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proethica_intermediate_extended: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate-extended> . <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#StructuralFailureHarmMaterializedState> a owl:Class ; rdfs:label "Structural Failure Harm Materialized State" ; rdfs:comment "State in which a completed or partially completed structural engineering design has experienced a significant physical failure during construction, confirming that design errors caused actual harm — including property damage, project delay, and financial loss — and triggering obligations of investigation, redesign, accountability, and reporting against the responsible design engineer." ; rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#State> .
Metadata
Type
Class
Content Hash
1188282c6464e456...
Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
16
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-02-25T03:27:43.986238+00:00
First Discovered In Case
16
Generated
2026-02-25T03:27:43.986238+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 16 Extraction