On Sunday, 5 October 2014 at 06:55:16 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Sunday, 5 October 2014 at 06:09:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Carpenters can be liable for building things they know are
wrong, regardless of what the spec says.
You can be made liable if you don't notify the responsible
entity you work for that the solution is unsuitable for the
purpose.
How it works in my country is that to raise a building you need
a qualified entity that is "responsible for the quality of the
construction" which could be an architect, a building engineer
or a carpenter with some extra certification. They are
responsible for ensuring/approving the overall quality. They
are required to ensure the quality of the spec/work and are
therefore liable vs the customer.
Oh, I think that here in Italy we outperform your country with
that, as for sure we are the most bureaucratised country on the
hearth.
So it happens that we have people "responsible for the quality"
for pretty everything, from building houses to doing pizzas.
And guess it, here the buildings made by ancient romans are still
"up and running", while we have schools building made in the '90
that come down at every earthquake...
Guru meditation... ;-P
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/Paolo
