A question for my engineering collagues

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Author Message Jerome J. Lazar, RA, CCS, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: lazarcitec Post Number: 1192 Registered: 05-2003 Posted on Thursday, October 02, 2014 - 06:01 pm:    What is difference between a certified engineer and a licensed engineer? Can a certified engineer be used in lieu of a licensed engineer? How about a qualified engineer? Sheldon Wolfe Senior Member Username: sheldon_wolfe Post Number: 793 Registered: 01-2003 Posted on Thursday, October 02, 2014 - 10:53 pm:    I don't recall seeing "certified" engineer. As to licensed v. registered, check your state statutes. A code analyst I know says, referring to his own state, "Architects and engineers are licensed, sex offenders are registered." Jerome J. Lazar, RA, CCS, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: lazarcitec Post Number: 1193 Registered: 05-2003 Posted on Friday, October 03, 2014 - 12:19 am:    This is from a GC mark-up for a large project in Trinidad, the GC wants to use the words "certified engineer" for "licensed engineer" and I disagree. I am trying to find from my colleagues if these terms are interchangeable. And in some of the mark-ups they use the term "qualified engineer". Mark Gilligan SE, Senior Member Username: mark_gilligan Post Number: 687 Registered: 10-2007 Posted on Friday, October 03, 2014 - 02:20 am:    In the US the states either register or license professional engineers. There is no real difference. In the UK my understanding is that the government does not regulate the practice of engineering directly. Instead various professional societies certify various classes of engineers and most clients rely on this certification when retaining engineers. I suspect that Trinidad follows the UK model. To check what I said and to figure out what you should do I would suggest that you associate with a local design professional. My sense is that in other countries the government regulations are different as are the professional practices. It is a mistake to assume they do things the same as they do in the US. Jerome J. Lazar, RA, CCS, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: lazarcitec Post Number: 1194 Registered: 05-2003 Posted on Friday, October 03, 2014 - 02:35 am:    Thanks Mark for your input. Since I am not the prime professional on the project nor am I signing/sealing the Project Manual it is difficult to reach out to a local design professional, I would assume my client has done that. This project has an American Architect, a Trinidad Developer/Building Owner, and a French Contractor. All the documents are prepared following metric measure. Standards referenced are American.