Section 8Ethical issues
In this Section:
- Reasonable skill and care
- Extensions of time for late information
- Provision of information
- Employer’s/client’s influence
Reasonable skill and care
As a professional person, the architect has an implied duty to act with reasonable skill and care in carrying out duties in relation to a project. Quite often the form of appointment will set a somewhat higher standard, in which case that will apply. The concept of what constitutes reasonable skill and care has changed over the years, and this means that the decisions in some of the earlier cases where this issue was discussed may not now be followed. For instance, the expectation that architects should not delay the contractor by late production ...
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