November 16, 2010
Centre Mont-Royal
2200, Mansfield Street
Montreal, QC, Canada

Event participants:

Dominique Gibbens

Me Dominique Gibbens will shed light on authentication of engineering documents: Reconciling construction and engineering perspectives according to engineering ethics.

Legal Viewpoint

Authenticating engineering documents is a delicate process. Accountability is difficult to determine when the financial and
legal consequences apply as much to the general contractor as to the client who hires the engineers.

• Ethical obligations surrounding authentication of documents prepared by a colleague
• Typical contractual provisions providing for the scope of verification
• Reconciling the contract and the code
  • Limiting the nature and application of the authentication
  • Clearly disclosing the verification's objectives
  • Authenticating for administrative purposes
• Determining the relevant scope of duty in authentication of:
  • Shop drawings
  • Engineering drawings
  • Plan revisions
  • Summary plan revisions

Note that this conference will be addressed only in french.