Chapter I: Private project management

Project management is a comprehensive task that must provide an architectural, technical and economic response to the programme defined by the project owner for the completion of a project.The project management task is distinct from that entrusted to the economic operators responsible for the works, subject to the provisions relating to global contracts in Chapter I of Title VII of Book I.

The project management assignment includes all or some of the elements of design, assistance, direction and control defined by regulation.These elements may vary according to:1° The project owner;2° The nature of the project;3° The project concerned;4° The involvement, from the drawing up of the preliminary design studies, of an economic operator responsible for the works or a supplier of industrial products, when the construction methods or techniques or the industrial…

For building works, a basic assignment is given to the holder of the public works contract, which includes all the elements of the assignment defined by regulation and enables :1° the project manager to produce an architectural summary of the objectives and constraints of the programme and to ensure that the studies he has carried out are complied with during the execution of the work;2° the client to ensure the…