• Large  projects  involve  owners,  consultants  and  contractors  and  many  participants  at various levels in these…

Consulting engineers have greater freedom with wider areas of responsible decision making compared to salaried…

To decide whether  ‘contingency  fee’ practice  may be allowed  or not, the potential  gains should …

NSPE has addressed this issue as follows: “An engineer shall not request, propose, or accept…

Contingency fee is dependent on some specific conditions beyond normal, satisfactory performance in work. • A…

Consulting engineers, in the absence of competitive bidding can be selected only based on their…

Competitive bidding was prohibited for quite some time due to the following reasons: Consulting jobs,…

• Generally consumer products can be advertised suppressing the negative aspects and even some exaggeration is…

Example 1: A consulting firm played actually a very minor role in a well-known project Situation…

Before 1976, advertising was thought to be ‘unprofessional’, in U.S.A. The state felt that work…