Peer review question
Peer review question
(OP)
Is it normal for an engineer to type his/her draft report directly onto the peer's letterhead and then the peer edit the document without saving a draft? I'm being told that's what HiRise Engineering did with the report for our home and that there are no draft versions of the report. The engineer's signature wasn't even original, there was a shadow around it showing that it had been copy and pasted onto the report. There's no proof of what the original report said and the engineer won't talk to me directly because he said I'm not his customer so he can't talk to me. The report was used to deny my claim and that's why I'm having a problem with the "no draft" answer.






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But there are too few details about the process, nor why you suspect there was either (1) foul play (deliberate deception)
or (2) accidental or incidental error (lost the original or the first copy, so they duplicated another answer.
What was supposed to have happened, and why do you think something else happened? And what are the consequences of either happening?
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Now if you are talking about a draft report that was issued to someone else, then there should be several copies of the draft report floating around.
Mike Lambert
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Either the work is legitimate and he'll take responsibility for it, or it isn't and he'll scramble when he realizes someone is going to review it.
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One other thing, and don't do this right out of the gate, wait until you have all the facts you can get; if you do have a good case that an engineer did something unethical then report them to your states engineering licensing board (but don't drag an innocent engineer through the mud if they actually are blameless). If the party at fault was not an engineer (for example if someone is performing engineering without a license or are modifying or copying an engineers work) then you'll want to complain to the district attorneys office.
Professional and Structural Engineer (ME, NH)
American Concrete Industries
www.americanconcrete.com
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Thank you all for your help.
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I would report this to the state board if I were them
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Professional and Structural Engineer (ME, NH)
American Concrete Industries
www.americanconcrete.com
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Professional and Structural Engineer (ME, NH)
American Concrete Industries
www.americanconcrete.com
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www.PeirceEngineering.com
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He bills his time for doing something else.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/nyregion/hurrica...
"In November, allegations of altered reports prompted a federal judge overseeing more than 1,000 hurricane related lawsuits in the New York City area to order all drafts of the engineering reports be turned over, saying he believed such revisions could be “widespread.” Lawyers for homeowners in the suits began reviewing the documents, and say they have already identified more than 500 doctored reports."
To answer why they did this. "Since private companies process flood insurance claims on behalf of FEMA -- issuing payouts from federal coffers -- they’re on the hook for repaying any excess money if government auditors later find those payments were issued in error. But critics point out that they don’t face equally severe penalties for underpaying policyholder claims."
http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/15/05/10/the-li...