Step 1: Contextual Framework Pass (Facts)

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Facts:
Engineer A is an engineer in private practice.
Engineer A is retained by Client A, a developer, to perform hydrodynamic modeling and coastal risk assessment in connection with potential climate change and sea level rise for a residential development project near a coastal area.
The geographic area in which Client A is planning to build the project currently has no building code in place.
Based on newly released information as well as a recently developed algorithm that includes newly identified historic weather data, Engineer A believes the residential development project should be built to a 100-year projected storm surge elevation, due to public safety risks even at lower projections of future surge level rise.
Because of the increased cost, Owner refuses to agree that the residential development project be built to a 100-year projection storm surge elevation.