8. Conclusion

The construction of civil engineering works is governed by complex, overlapping and interlocking rules. As a result, it requires administrative and technical knowledge on the part of all those involved, in order to translate the needs, technical specifications and construction methods of the works into the documents that make up the content and substance of the written contract.

A guarantee of quality must be provided in the design and construction of infrastructures, particularly in the water sector, where the concepts of depreciation and renewal of structures are still recent, with most of the first investments dating back barely three generations and, for the vast majority of them, invisible as they are buried...

The organizing authority, which always owns the facilities that make up the public service, must ensure the continuity of its...