by Dieter W. Heinichen The building sector is constantly evolving with a plurality of international, state, regional and local regulations. According to the website of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, the Sources of Law that regulate the Building regulations in Spain are:
- The Consolidated Text of the Law on Land and Urban Rehabilitation (approved by Royal Legislative Decree 7/2015)
- The State Plan to promote rental housing, building rehabilitation, and urban regeneration and renewal, 2013-2016.
- The Technical Building Code, approved by Royal Decree 314/2006 of March 17.
- The International Regulations.
- The Regulations of the European Union.
- State and regional regulations on housing and urban planning.
- Instruction No. 43 dated May 16, 2014, of the Undersecretary of Development on the application of the percentage for financing the works of conservation or enrichment of the Spanish historical heritage to Agencies, Autonomous Organisms, Foundations, public business entities, other entities public.
- The Ministerial Order of Accessibility in Urbanized Public Spaces.
This set of provisions forms the current building regulations that are under continuous revision and therefore an online bookstore is necessary that is kept continuously updated, as basconfer.com which is an online bookstore of legal works on building regulations, which makes a wide variety of legal copies available to professionals responsible for construction, students, and any other interested person.
The professionals responsible for building are experts in building. They know the entire building process, which allows them to coordinate its phases and independently apply the controls that guarantee its quality, safety and respect for the environment. This comprehensive knowledge of the building's life cycle is its hallmark of professional identity.
The building regulations in Spain include
- technical projects,
- feasibility studies,
- Project planning,
- project audit,
- request and comparison of budgets,
- hiring,
- administrative procedures to be carried out before the start of the works,
- Waste management study.
In addition, the professionals responsible for complying with the building regulations have attributions and competences to assume the direction of all those works that they can project and can also issue.
- reports,
- opinions,
- expert opinions,
- valuations and
- appraisals.
The professionals responsible for complying with building regulations in Spain are experts in
- Security coordination in the drafting phase of the project,
- Drafting of the Security Study or Basic Security Study,
- Security Coordination in the execution phase of the work,
- Drafting of Security Plans and
- Self-protection and emergency plans.
On the other hand, those responsible for building with specific training in the technical, regulatory and economic control areas -Quantity Surveyor-, safety and quality of the building process are the ideal professionals to develop Project Management and Management skills -Project Manager- of all kinds of interventions and works, including those carried out using new building management methodologies -BIM Manager-, etc. -Facility Manager-, Equipment Management, Energy Management, Environmental and Waste Management, Environmental Management Plan, Construction Waste Management Plan, Real Estate Management and Property Administration.
Other actions that can be carried out to comply with building regulations are:
- measurements,
- Preparation of technical reports,
- valued memories,
- Calculation of Structures,
- Quality Control Plan,
- Elaboration of the Book of the Building,
- Technical work in the manufacture and design of construction materials,
- technical control of the building (OCTs),
- Laboratories of quality control,
- maintenance interventions,
- construction manager, etc.
