2. Participants in the act of building
2.1 Project owner
The project owner can be defined as any person (individual or group) who, as the owner of a plot of land, or at the very least as the holder of a right to build on that land, enters into one or more leasing contracts with one or more building professionals (known as "lessors"), to build a structure on his or her behalf.
The client is therefore the person who commissions and pays for work carried out by an architect, one (or more) contractor(s), one (or more) technical design office(s) or engineering company(ies), with the finished building intended either for his or her own personal use, or for resale, rental or any other use.
Ever since the Civil Code was drafted in 1804, the...
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Standards and norms
- Marchés privés. Cahiers types. Cahier des clauses administratives générales applicables aux travaux de bâtiment faisant l'objet de marchés privés. - NF P 03-001 - 12-2000
- Marchés privés. Cahiers types. Cahier des clauses administratives générales applicables aux travaux de génie civil faisant l'objet de marchés privés. - NF P 03-002 - 05-1992
Regulations
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Decree of March 20, 1980
The Code des devoirs professionnels des architectes requires architects to draw up an architectural project including at least (article 16 of the decree):
"graphic and written documents defining :
integration with the site, relief and climate;
the layout of the...
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