Research Article
Oct 1979
Risks and Liability in Engineering Practice
Authors: John P. Gnaedinger, F.ASCE, Narbey Khachaturian, F.ASCE, and Walter E. Hanson, F.ASCEAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Issues in Engineering: Journal of Professional Activities
Volume 105, Issue 4
Abstract
Practicing engineers face increasingly more difficult risk and liability situations. These result from larger and more complex projects and from uncertainties of materials, identification of loads to which structures may be subjected, and the suitability of methods and quality control of construction. Engineers can not guarantee safety. However, risks and liabilities can be reduced substantially by improved programs of continuing professional competence, by peer reviews, and by more expeditious methods of settling disputes and claims. Mediator-arbitrator procedures have distinct advantages over both litigation and ordinary arbitration in the resolution of disputes. ASCE and other professional organizations should be more active in the development and implementation of programs and procedures to reduce risks and liabilities in engineering practice.
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Issues in Engineering: Journal of Professional Activities
Volume 105 • Issue 4 • October 1979
Pages: 207 - 217
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© 1979 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Oct 1979
Published online: Feb 11, 2021
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Business management
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Construction materials
- Construction methods
- Continuum mechanics
- Dispute resolution
- Dynamics (solid mechanics)
- Engineering materials (by type)
- Engineering mechanics
- Engineering profession
- Legal affairs
- Liability
- Materials engineering
- Motion (dynamics)
- Organizations
- Practice and Profession
- Professional societies
- Project management
- Solid mechanics
- Uncertainty principles
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John P. Gnaedinger, F.ASCE
Pres., Soil Testing Services, Inc., Northbrook, Ill.
Narbey Khachaturian, F.ASCE
Prof. of Civ. Engrg., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ill.
Walter E. Hanson, F.ASCE
Chmn. of the Board, Hanson Engrs., Inc., Springfield, Ill.
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