Hurricane Sandy: The Storm After the Storm
Hurricane Sandy: The Storm After the Storm
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NSPE's forum posted this recently, which punctuates ethics and that a PEs legal responsibility is to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public. When you have such overwhelming problems to deal with, the last thing you need to deal with is people not doing the right things. I applaud the engineers who did the right thing.
60 Minutes The Storm After the Storm
50 Indictments from NY AG Eric Schneiderman
60 Minutes The Storm After the Storm
50 Indictments from NY AG Eric Schneiderman
Pamela K. Quillin, P.E.
Quillin Engineering, LLC





RE: Hurricane Sandy: The Storm After the Storm
B.E.
You are judged not by what you know, but by what you can do.
RE: Hurricane Sandy: The Storm After the Storm
Reported in June, 2014... investigation commenced in Dec, 2014... and charges filed recently...
Some of the recommendations:
Implement a national certification process for all engineers retained to provide structural damage assessments in the wake of a flood event; and
Ensure the transparency of fees paid to engineering experts by implementing a standardized fee schedule for all engineering services.
Dik
I'm with the government and here to help you...
RE: Hurricane Sandy: The Storm After the Storm
That's kind of a broad statement. One would think this would apply to the e perks used to asses the damage after a flood, but it is not written that way.
RE: Hurricane Sandy: The Storm After the Storm
This details that first court case that blew this whole issue up. Per that article, while the engineer was conducting a supplemental inspection, the homeowner reportedly went through the engineer's bag and photographed the engineer's draft report.
Looks to me that the engineer didn't quite know what he was doing and got ripped by his peer reviewer to properly explain himself. This is not what 60 minutes construed to everyone.
RE: Hurricane Sandy: The Storm After the Storm
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/28/...
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RE: Hurricane Sandy: The Storm After the Storm
I'll read the casualty report later. It should be interesting.
Pamela K. Quillin, P.E.
Quillin Engineering, LLC
RE: Hurricane Sandy: The Storm After the Storm