Question about Reviewing/Marking on Another Companies Preliminary Drawings Provided by the Client
Question about Reviewing/Marking on Another Companies Preliminary Drawings Provided by the Client
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I've been asked by a client to provide a cold eyes review of a residential foundation design and have a question with regards to the architect's drawings.
The client has provided me with "prelminary" hard and electronic pdf copies of the drawings for my review.
On the drawings, there is a note about no reproduction or other use of the drawings is permitted without Architect X's written consent.
For my review, I'm providing the client with a stamped letter describing my recommendations but explain that is the engineer or record and architect's responsibility for the final design.
I was planning on marking on the drawings (no stamping involved) my recommendations and including them with my letter but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this after catching the note about consent.
I tried searching for similar threads but I wasn't able to find anything.
For others who have been in a similar situation, how did you handle this?
The client has provided me with "prelminary" hard and electronic pdf copies of the drawings for my review.
On the drawings, there is a note about no reproduction or other use of the drawings is permitted without Architect X's written consent.
For my review, I'm providing the client with a stamped letter describing my recommendations but explain that is the engineer or record and architect's responsibility for the final design.
I was planning on marking on the drawings (no stamping involved) my recommendations and including them with my letter but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this after catching the note about consent.
I tried searching for similar threads but I wasn't able to find anything.
For others who have been in a similar situation, how did you handle this?






RE: Question about Reviewing/Marking on Another Companies Preliminary Drawings Provided by the Client
Also, just because you put something in a note doesn't give you a legally defensible position. Do you have a contract with the other firm? No? Is the information in the drawings considered a trade secret or copyrighted material? No? Then you aren't really doing anything wrong.
Now, if you reproduced the drawing with the intent of steeling their details and such then that would be a problem. But, marking them up for their client. I don't see how this would be problematic for you in any way. At least not here in the US.
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RE: Question about Reviewing/Marking on Another Companies Preliminary Drawings Provided by the Client
Thanks JAE. Sorry I didn't realize there was an ethics forum.
RE: Question about Reviewing/Marking on Another Companies Preliminary Drawings Provided by the Client
That being said, I generally see such notes just being totally ignored by all concerned.
RE: Question about Reviewing/Marking on Another Companies Preliminary Drawings Provided by the Client
RE: Question about Reviewing/Marking on Another Companies Preliminary Drawings Provided by the Client
RE: Question about Reviewing/Marking on Another Companies Preliminary Drawings Provided by the Client
RE: Question about Reviewing/Marking on Another Companies Preliminary Drawings Provided by the Client
RE: Question about Reviewing/Marking on Another Companies Preliminary Drawings Provided by the Client