When infrastructure projects like the one for the monument base at Palmyra fail, it is the engineers who should take the blame and not the government, contractor or procuring agency, according to veteran geotechnical engineer, Charles Ceres.
“The person who is supposed to hold the brunt of the blame is the engineer responsible for the design,” Ceres told Stabroek News in an interview yesterday.
“What we have to look at is the quality of engineering services that has been provided to the people of Guyana. Too often people see engineering failures as failing of the contractor but in all instances after evaluations you find that the contractors did what was designed. So this attitude of trying to apportion blame to the contractor is false,” he added.
