Peer Review
Peer Review
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A General Contractor is doing a school where they are the CM at Risk. We were not the EOR of the project, but we know both, the Generral Contractor and the Architect of Record. The contractor came to us, and ask us to do a peer review of the construction documents, what is the right thing to do, to let the Archtiect know that you are doing a peer review, or not tell him. Do we need to let also the EOR of the project know what we are doing.
Thanks for your help
Thanks for your help






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Mike Lambert
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I do believe you have a duty to be honest in your appraisal and review.
In one sense you have an obligation to your "client" here to keep your agreement with them confidential unless they authorize it.
Performing a peer review is not some type of nefarious activity. Just keep in mind that whatever you report to the contractor may eventually be
revealed to the professionals and you should be able to defend your opinions.
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7. Engineers shall not attempt to injure, maliciously or falsely, directly or indirectly, the professional reputation, prospects,
practice, or employment of other engineers. Engineers who believe others are guilty of unethical or illegal practice shall present
such information to the proper authority for action.
a. Engineers in private practice shall not review the work of another engineer for the same client, except with the knowledge of such
engineer, or unless the connection of such engineer with the work has been terminated.
b. Engineers in governmental, industrial, or educational employ are entitled to review and evaluate the work of other engineers when so required by their employment duties.
c. Engineers in sales or industrial employ are entitled to make engineering comparisons of represented products with products of other suppliers.
Note that in III.7.a there is the phrase "for the same client". In this case, you are working for a contractor who is attempting to protect himself from bad plans.
You and the other engineer have different clients.
You are not working for the "same client" per se, so in this case you can provide a review without directly notifying the other engineer. I agree with oldestguy above that
before you go talking to that engineer, you probably would want to seek approval of that communication with your contractor client.
So you don't have an absolute obligation here to contact that engineer, but depending on the circumstances, it could be beneficial, and sort of the polite thing to do.
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However, the bigger issue appears to the be the ability of the EOR to perform the work. If you have located deficiencies in the work, you likely have an obligation under your State's ethics rules to report the deficiencies to the "proper authorities". Most States are vague on what constitutes the "proper authorities" but you and your license could be on the hook if you don't do it.
Good luck. I hope this doesn't turn into a big mess with you at the middle of it.
Mike Lambert