Engineering Contracts, Specifications & Ethics '98
Author: Q. Mendoza
Publisher: Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9789712324628
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Q. Mendoza
Publisher: Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9789712324628
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert D. Hunter
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2017-12-19
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1351833235
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Engineers encounter different types of contracts at nearly every turn in their careers. Contracts for Engineers: Intellectual Property, Standards, and Ethics is a tool to enhance their ability to communicate contractual issues to lawyers—and then better understand the legal advice they receive. Building on its exploration of contracts, this book expands discussion to: Patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property issues Development of standards and the bodies that govern them, as well as conformity assessment and accreditation Ethics at both the micro and macro levels—a concept under major scrutiny after several major disasters, including the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the collapse of Boston’s Big Dig, and a coal-mining accident that resulted in many deaths With a brief introduction to common law contracts and their underlying principles, including basic examples, the book presents a sample of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) regarding the sale of goods. It evaluates elements of the different contracts that engineers commonly encounter, such as employee and associated consulting agreements and contracts involved in construction and government. Approaching intellectual property from a contract perspective, this reference focuses on the many different types of patents and their role in commerce. It touches on the application of trademarks and recent developments in the use of copyright as a form of contract and explains the process of obtaining patents, including the rationale for investing in them. Ethical standards receive special attention, which includes a review of several prominent professional codes of ethics and conduct for both organizations and individual engineers, particularly officers and higher-level managers.
Author: Clarence Whiting Dunham
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 532
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert W. Abbett
Publisher:
Published: 1963-01-15
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gives a compact presentation of the legal and business aspects of the engineering profession, and stresses the hazards resulting from errors and omissions in contract documents. For other editions, see Author Catalog.
Author: J. Goldbloom
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1468414526
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For the past 25 years, Joe Goldbloom and I have conducted a running debate over whether specifications writers engage in the unlawful practice of law. Joe's position is that lawyers have no business writing specifications, that being the designer's province. Having been given the honor to write this foreword, I have the opportunity for the last word, at least for now. Joe Goldbloom and I first met in 1964, while serving together on the ASCE Committee on Contract Administration. Joe became my teacher, mentor, and friend. Underlying our good natured debate was the serious issue of the technical qualifications required of a specifications writer. As a matter of fact, specifi cations writing traditionally has fallen in a crack between the two professions. Specifications writing typically is neither taught in engineering school nor in law school. Engineers are taught how to design; lawyers are taught how to draft contracts. Specifications writing requires mastery of the technical elements of design as well as the skills of contract drafting. Specifications writing is neither glamorous nor sexy; it is often viewed as a necessary evil of the designer's job.
Author: Rebecca Mirsky
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-25
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 113666758X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Construction professionals have a range of demanding responsibilities; towards clients, their companies, and to abide by government regulations. It is understandable that busy practitioners could forget their ethical responsibilities in the face of these pressures, but maintaining a rigorous ethical standard is crucial to long-term success. Written to meet the ACCE’s requirements for all construction students, this textbook draws on the authors’ industry experience, as well as detailed case studies to introduce and explore ethics in the construction industry. Within each chapter, the authors present the key ethical issues in important areas of construction management such as: Contracts and bidding Documentation Codes and Compliance Discrimination and Harassment Client Relations Lists of further reading and discussion questions will help readers at all levels to develop their understanding of this issue. Written as a resource to accompany students throughout their degrees, this is the ideal book to give students or practitioners the breadth and depth of understanding required to successfully negotiate the ethical challenges facing the construction organization of today.
Author: Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt
Publisher:
Published: 1883
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13:
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