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Big Dig Collapse Case Study

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QUESTION 2: BIG DIG COLLAPSE Public Health and safety are core primary duties and responsibilities of a professional engineer; to this trail, engineers can be held accountable for ignoring this duty as it may negligently result in causing harm to others. In the modern society engineering continues to strive and bring what has been considered to be science fiction into reality, i.e. moon exploration, though as much of success there is, there are also moral challenges being implicated; safety being number one. It is evidential from cases in the past where the notion of this duty was ignored and as a result, moral and ethical dilemmas arose. In the context of engineering one case study which attributes the consequences of ignoring the importance of public health and safety is the “Big Dig Collapse” (International case study). This case study will be analyzed in the context of two ethical approaches, duty ethics and virtue ethics. The Central Artery Tunnel project otherwise known as the Big Dig is one of the most technically challenging and expensive …show more content…

The couple was headed to Logan International Airport (East Boston) when this incident happened, Milena passed away right at the scene while her husband only survived with minor injuries. The Massachusetts attorney general 's office issued subpoenas the next day to those involved in the Big Dig project. Soon federal investigations ensued (Charles E.Harris Jr, 2007). This incident made headline news in the U.S, even the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) newspaper called it “Tunnel of Terror” (Wander,

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