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Ethics & accountability · Balancing user vs business interest

You're running a value-engineering exercise to bring an over-budget project back in line, and the cheapest cut on the table is a lower-grade waterproofing membrane that meets code minimum but that you know will likely fail years after the warranty expires. Do you recommend it?

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"Meets code minimum" is a floor, not a recommendation, and I won't hide behind it to hand the owner a predictable failure the year after our warranty lapses.

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