Firstly: guidance if you are a legal professional engaged in litigation regarding this project

So this is about the 3rd Bosphorus Bridge project North of Istanbul, Turkey, which I was working on in the first half of 2015.

At the time of writing, putting my 3rd Bosphorus Bridge project memoir in the public domain, including this statement, I know of no legal proceedings. Anyone reading these writings seeking to identify who is to blame for problems should read and re-read these notes as many times as necessary, with follow-up studying the referenced Standards and Codes, and do appropriate "background" research until the meaning is clear.

How did the project run into the problems which necessitated my recruitment? The explanation for who is to blame and who is liable is "everyone and no-one". For the reason that the problems were the local manifestations of the wider global context of the global economic endeavour as relating to welds and welding.

The Standards mentioned are those as they were operating in 2015:

• ISO15614-1 - had become largely inappropriate and had the outdated "range-of-qualification" which created the "quality leak" that tight control of welding processes is almost prohibited (appropriate weld qualification should be based on something looking like a combination of the deprecated ISO15610 and ISO15612)
• EN1090 was the legally mandatory Code for steelwork across the European Union (EU) per "harmonisation" rules; prohibiting using "tried and trusted" alternative Codes like the AWS D1."n" series when the shortcomings of EN1090 came into view. Turkey was not then part of the EU, but had those ambitions, probably influencing choices outside of engineering merit.
• EN10025 series are a good range of Standards for commodity steels - but the commoditisation view did not help get the right choices made for this high-value project with specific requirements
• Many technicians hold the post of "welding engineer" due to the unintended effect of wording in ISO14731:2006 Appendix A. Another effect was corruption, with people with no discernable understanding of welding presenting as welding engineers.
  This was one of the largest reasons for degeneracy within the project

If as a legal professional you are truly motivated by egalitarian causes, a good first task would be to sort out these issues.

Sounds like lots of virtuous pro bono work you would be keen to contribute to the cause of a better world, facilitating better infrastructure for a pleasant standard of living for most!

(R. Smith, 19Apr2017)