Construction Industry Roles and Responsibilities in Urban Development

Posted on Aug 6, 2024 in Law & Jurisprudence

Construction Industry Roles and Responsibilities

Promoter

  • Decides, promotes, and finances construction projects
  • Holds title to the building lot
  • Facilitates documentation and information for project drafting
  • Obtains building permits and insurance
  • Delivers documentation of completed work

Designer

  • Drafts the project design
  • Holds an appropriate academic title (e.g., architect, engineer)
  • Complies with established legislation
  • Collaborates with the developer on partial aspects

Builder

  • Executes the construction work according to the design and contract
  • Takes ownership of the project
  • Appoints the site manager
  • Allocates human and material resources
  • Signs minutes of rethinking and receipt of documentation
  • Provides security

Director of the Work

  • Directs the work according to the project and contract
  • Holds appropriate academic qualifications
  • Verifies the design and adapts it to the site conditions
  • Resolves complications during construction
  • Develops plans for the completed work

Direct Implementation of Work

  • Leads the implementation of the work
  • Controls the quality of materials and construction
  • Holds an appropriate academic title
  • Confirms receipt of construction products
  • Leads the delivery of materials
  • Assists in documentation of completed work

Institutions and Laboratories for Quality Control

  • Provide technical assistance to verify project quality through testing
  • Deliver test results
  • Possess sufficient capacity to perform the work properly

Product Suppliers

  • Manufacture, wholesale, import, or sell construction products
  • Schedule product delivery according to orders
  • Provide instructions for product use and maintenance

Owners and Users

  • Responsible for maintenance and proper use of the building

Types of Licenses

Occupation License

  • Verifies the adequacy of completed work as proposed in the project

Opening License

  • For businesses or industries
  • Verifies compliance with planning requirements, local ordinances, and conditions of safety, security, and health

Classified Business License

  • For businesses that are considered nuisance, harmful, unhealthy, or dangerous

Installation License

  • For installation or relocation of industrial equipment
  • May be subsumed by other licenses

Urban Land

  • Right to build on land subject to planning legislation
  • Right to develop land to acquire solar status
  • Must be built on within a specified period
  • Must contribute to local public budgets, land for general systems, and soil corresponding to 10% of use
  • Benefits and costs resulting from planning should be distributed equitably
  • Must be urbanized and built on by the date fixed in planning

Land for Development

  • Right to use and dispose of land under its rustic nature
  • Right to promote development after approval of a development plan
  • Duty to pay and execute work related to external general systems

Non-Developable Land

  • Right to use, enjoy, and dispose of property in accordance with its nature
  • Must be used for purposes related to the rational use of natural resources
  • Ban on rustic farm divisions against the provisions of agrarian and forestry legislation

Works Contract

  • Agreement for the construction, alteration, repair, maintenance, or demolition of a property
  • Executed on behalf of the administration for a fee

Leases for Civil Works

  • Aims to meet the specific interest of the lessor who is not the public

Supplies

  • Consists of a supply of movable or manufactured goods

Concessions of Public Works

  • Transcend legal relations with management and contractors
  • Users pay a price for services

Concessions of Public Services

  • Obligation to provide a service
  • Promised to work as such

Urban Land

  • Land transformed by having access to roads, water supply, and electricity
  • May also be implemented land planning that has been urbanized in accordance with it

Solar

  • Urban land that is ready to build on

Basic Project

  • Contains the basic determinations of the work
  • Allows for checking the suitability of the projected planning

Project Execution

  • Includes all documentation required to execute the works

Difference Between NBE and NTE

  • NBE (Spanish Basic Standards) are mandatory
  • NTE (Spanish Technical Standards) are not mandatory

Classes of Ruin

Economic

  • Cost of consolidation or maintenance exceeds 50% of the current value of the building

Physical

  • Structural elements present general exhaustion

Urban

  • Building outside of management