Here is a sentence that should worry you more than it does: the engineering project for our first villa was signed by a licensed engineer, stamped, and formally correct — and it was wrong.
Not wrong in taste. Wrong in physics.
HOW IT STARTED
The engineering came through a construction company that had been recommended to us — by a contact who, we later understood, was more interested in a referral commission than in our result. The specialty projects were delivered and declared done well. Signed by a licensed engineer. Everything, we were assured, met the ethical standards and the principles of the profession.