Practical Completion / Final Completion

Spanish translation: Acta de recepción provisional/Acta de recepción definitiva de las obras

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English term or phrase:	Practical Completion / Final Completion
Spanish translation:	Acta de recepción provisional/Acta de recepción definitiva de las obras
Entered by:	Amaya Pérez D.

07:54 Jun 3, 2011

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Law/Patents - Architecture / Contrato de Ejecución de Obra

English term or phrase: Practical Completion / Final Completion

En un contrato figuran estos dos términos en una de sus cláusulas:

The CONTRACTOR shall issue an invoice for the amount corresponding to two and a half percent (2.5%) of the work carried out at the time in which the positive provisional receipt of the work is made; 6 months after handover – Practical Completion, and shall issue an invoice for the amount corresponding to two and a half percent (2.5%) of the work carried out at the time in which the final receipt is made, 12 months after handover, Final Completion, and which must be paid by ………………… on the sixtieth (60th) day after receiving the invoice in the event that there are no defects or objections or penalisations pending.

He visto que ya hay aportaciones de otros compañeros aquí mismo. Aparecen estas sugerencias:

# Certificado Final de Obra como Final Completion Certificate.
# Acta de Recibo de Obra como Certificate of Practical Completion
# Practical Completion como Finalización Definitiva de las Obras.

Entiendo que Practical Competion puede referirse a cuando se ha terminado la obra pero todavía no se ha concedido el Certificado de Final de Obra. No estoy segura de los términos técnicos equivalentes en español.

He encontrado esta explicación en Internet: http://www.alway-associates.co.uk/legal-update/article.asp?i...

What is Practical Completion?

The issue of whether a construction project has achieved Practical Completion has long been the source of many disputes within the construction industry. This is not surprising as many of the Standard Forms of Contract rely upon the issue of a Certificate of Practical Completion to trigger such matters as the release of the first moiety of retention, exclusion of liability for Liquidated and Ascertained Damages and Insurance of the Works.

Given the importance of this matter it is somewhat surprising that the Standard Forms used throughout the Construction Industry (with the exception of the process plant industry IChemeE, although still open to interpretation) do not define completion. Instead, they generally leave the matter to the discretion of the Architect, Engineer and Supervising Officer etc.

Gracias,

Amaya Pérez D. KudoZ activity Questions: 11 (none open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 4
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Acta de recepción provisional/Acta de recepción definitiva de las obras

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Espero que te ayude.

En el Acta de Recepción Provisional, se hará constar el estado de terminación, ... Recepción provisional. Una vez terminadas las obras se procederá, ...
www.miliarium.com/.../Obligaciones_Contratista.as

RECEPCIÓN PROVISIONAL. •. Una vez realizadas las pruebas finales con resultados satisfactorios en presencia del director de obra, se procede al acto de ...
www.gva.es/downloads/publicados/IN/23272_ES.pdf

ACTA DE RECEPCION PROVISIONAL.Se procederá a su firma por los mismas personas arriba relacionadas una vez terminadas las obras con el visto bueno de los ...
195.57.119.201 › Inicio › Gestión y tramitación

RECEPCION DEFINITIVA de los trabajos, los cuales fueron recibidos provisionalmente con fecha ... Obra anteriormente mencionada de acuerdo con las normas, ...
201.249.238.203/desarrollo/descargas/definitiva.pdf

Acta de recepción definitiva. El Director comunicará a la Administración, ... Si del examen de la obra resulta que no se encuentra en las condiciones ...
www.carreteros.org/legislaciona/.../articulo76.htm

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Mercedes Sánchez-Marco (X)
Spain
Local time: 16:34

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Muchísimas gracias a tod@s
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Acta de recepción provisional/Acta de recepción definitiva de las obras

Mercedes Sánchez-Marco (X)

Acta de recibo de la obra

Carmen Andú

Discussion entries: 10

FVS (X)

Adalia

10:18 Jun 3, 2011

Thanks for responding. In any event you have what is certainly the correct answer and much better expressed than in your unfortunate original.

Amaya Pérez D.

ASKER

10:11 Jun 3, 2011

FVZ
La empresa que encarga la traducción es española pero en el contrato no figura el lugar donde tienen lugar las Obras. Espero que esta información te sea de utilidad.
Muchas gracias a ambos por vuestras aportaciones.

William Pairman

Spain

Ah ha!

10:03 Jun 3, 2011

Presumably, as a builder and not a translator my friend saw "practical" and understood "provisional" if you see what I mean. As I wasn't asking him to be critical of the English term, he wasnt and just explained the difference.
All very interesting!

FVS (X)

William

09:53 Jun 3, 2011

Olza has provided the answer. I hoped somebody would. //"positive provisional receipt' is clearly a bad translation of recepcion provisional positiva.

FVS (X)

I know the answer here

09:46 Jun 3, 2011

But am curious to see if anybody else comes up with it. I would like the asker to confirm where the works took place.// You confused me a bit when you said info above, on my screen the info you provided is below.

William Pairman

Spain

Are we talking about 2 or 3 different things?

09:44 Jun 3, 2011

My discussion point is info from an English friend, rendered into Spanish (apologies to all concerned for any mistakes)
The original contract may well have been in Spanish, I dont know
As to the OPs internet ref, again no idea, but I didnt really understand it, hence me asking my friend

FVS (X)

It's simply an internet reference found by asker.

09:36 Jun 3, 2011

It's a back translation. Really. I can spot the mistakes a mile off. What would clinch it is to know where the construction work is taking place. A Spanish speaking country I'll bet.

William Pairman

Spain

Practical Completion / Final Completion...

09:23 Jun 3, 2011

...are certainly used in UK construction tho, the info above is from a London contractor working on big public authority contracts

FVS (X)

I'm pretty sure this is a back translation.

09:16 Jun 3, 2011

You are translating a translation from Spanish. And frankly not a good one.

William Pairman

Spain

Según un amigo constructor británico...

08:10 Jun 3, 2011

"Practical Completion" es un de facto terminación - se puede entrar a vivir o usar la casa/oficina etc pero no han hecho los útimos retoques, correcciones etc. El cliente (el arquitecto) puede "firmar", es decir "aceptar" la obra

"Final completion" representa la terminación de responsibilidad contractual del constructor

En la construcción en el RU, se habla de un periodo de retención (retention period). El cliente retiene un % del pago adelantado - normalmente 5%. Paga la mitad (2.5% del total) al firmar el Practical Completion y el resto al final del "retention period". En obras grandes este periodo puede ser largo, lo cual suele causar malestar

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practical completion / final completion Acta de recibo de la obra

Explanation:
En una obra se entrega el bien construido mediante certificación. La certificación final queda a expensas de que se cumpla el plazo de garantía.

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Acta de recepción de obra también, este término es más adecuado para España, en mi opinión.

Carmen Andú
Local time: 16:34
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Spanish

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practical completion / final completion

Acta de recepción provisional/Acta de recepción definitiva de las obras

Mercedes Sánchez-Marco (X)
Spain
Local time: 16:34
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