Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

Register Log in
  • Congratulations waross on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

International legal capacity in design ?

Status
Not open for further replies.
lz5pl

lz5pl

Electrical
Feb 6, 2007
313
For a coming project in country of EU main contractor asked us whether we have "International legal capacity in investment design". We have several engineers with full legal capacity for our country (national equivalent of PE in US), but for first time we hear about such international status.
If somebody knows something about the matter ?
I even suspect that main contractor (he is from our country, not from the one where the project will be) misunderstanding something, but I am afraid we could lose contract because of some bureaucratic point or just due to bad translation of tender documents.

------------------------
It may be like this in theory and practice, but in real life it is completely different.
The favourite sentence of my army sergeant
 
Replies continue below

Recommended for you

Sort by date Sort by votes
lz5pl...have done international practice, but don't know of any international licensing recognition....I think you need to get clarification.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Thank you, Ron. I have the same experience - projects in about 10 different countries, never heard about some international certification.
Probably it is something like "Lost in translation" :)

------------------------
It may be like this in theory and practice, but in real life it is completely different.
The favourite sentence of my army sergeant
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
What is an "investment design"? Something lost in translation? Misspelling for international?

It may mean, you are officially authorized to conduct business in that particular country. Just a guess.

Rafiq Bulsara
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Professional organization of engineers in our country is named Chamber of Engineers in the Investment Design. It is similar to PE license in US - only members of this Chamber have legal capacity to sign and stamp design materials according to extends of their license.
Probably "Investment Design" is not very good translation, but it is the official one. It means design of buildings, factories, etc. (not design of mashine parts, for example).

------------------------
It may be like this in theory and practice, but in real life it is completely different.
The favourite sentence of my army sergeant
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
I'm from Europe and have never heard of such legal capacity here. It might exist for construction works (just a guess) but for sure not in other engineering fields. Through this forum I learned how complex this is in the US. Here in Europe you do not get any kind of license and you are not registered anywhere. The profession "Engineer" is not even protected in some countries.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Organization has internation recognition between EU member nations, so say you have an engineer from a membering nation say, Greece. You can get reciprocity in France Germany etc.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

M
  • Locked
  • Question
Building structural design fees
Replies
4
Views
4K
M.Park
M
XR250
  • Locked
  • Question
Legal question 1
Replies
10
Views
327
XR250
XR250
mfstructural
  • Locked
  • Question
Structural Engineering New Building Design Fees
Replies
3
Views
5K
W460x68
W460x68
paulcook
  • Locked
  • Question
Music in the Office 2
2
Replies
23
Views
3K
CWB1
CWB1
glass99
  • Locked
  • Question
Tax retention for consulting services in Kuwait
Replies
3
Views
829
LittleInch
LittleInch

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top Bottom