CIVIL ENGINEER IN GREECE
This is the most important for your building
For the realization of your license you need two main steps: The first is that of the studies which will bring together three providers: the civil engineer, the architect and a mechanologist. Often, you will only have one interlocutor but who will subcontract the other two. The role of the architect is to make only the creation of your project, the mechanologos is in charge of doing the studies for fluids and energy, while the civil engineer will be the real carrier of your project. He will analyze your property papers, the surveyor to make the topography, the feasibility according to the laws in force (and they are numerous and scabrous), he will make the plans with all the indications of concrete, working days, iron for anti-seismic mechanisms and much more…
When your permit is opened by Polodomia, you can start building and this is the second step of the civil engineer’s service. It will supervise all stages of your construction, from the validation of the position of concrete formwork, irons integrated into the concrete, the exact positioning of the house to the nearest centimeters. Until the closing of the license that will endorse the existence of your house.
Between the opening and the closure you have 5 years to finalize the process, otherwise your license will be void and you will have to redo everything by paying.
Until the new real estate law in 2022, the civil engineer had no responsibility for what he did or told you. Impossible to turn against your civil engineer, this has given rise to all the abuses…
If you knew how long it took us to be able to deliver all this information to you in a synthetic way. A way to tell you that it is really better to have the steps explained. The most total opacity is required if not to keep control over you. In discharge, however, it must be specified that new laws, new verifications flourish every month without any legal appearance.
Certainly you are used to having worked in your life with providers. Forget this notion right away, the meaning of customer relationship does not exist. If you do not get involved, if you do not go to look for the information you are in danger and we risk doing with you what we want and above all you place you in a dependence that will not be good at all for the subsequent evaluation of construction costs. the drifts can be impressive from the single or quadruple!!! Preserve your money!!
For architecture too, the notion of creation is profoundly different. For this already we will tell you a lot of rules on what we cannot do to better make you pass a simplistic drawing… without any creation… that sometimes the architect will have already done elsewhere, for another client.
Finally, for your good mental health, avoid at this stage to pay anything in cash, ask for invoices, because without an invoice, no responsibility..
A TEAM TO STUDY AND MONITOR YOUR CONSTRUCTION
The three trades
Your civil engineer has finished the study, you must have the plans and documents that he will use to file your license and of course control them precisely.
As soon as you purchase your land, your civil engineer must apply to the archaeological service if, however, the land is classified as such. Their reaction time to move a person who will be able to carry out the excavation on your land only on the area of implantation of this house is counted in months and they generally do not give any news!! It took us 7 months…
If you live near an airport, you will have to get authorization from the airport so that your house does not hinder the passage of planes, I suppose. Since 2001 and the attacks on the World Trade Center for this reason it is forbidden to build on the top of the mound of land. Generally the law prohibits building higher than the top of the land also for this reason.
You will also have to prove with the Urbanism of the Town Hall that your land is well connected by a road. Subtlety it is necessary to make the difference between existing routes and mapping routes. On our small road island on the official map there is only ONE.
Then you will submit your plan with a 3D rendering to an architectural committee composed of expert architects to validate that your project respects the elements of local styles, the environment…
All these documents in electronic form are deposited in the pre-approval file of the Polodomia of your place to make the opening of your building permit.
In all, count 3 to 4 months to make the project plans and about 6 months for the institutional stages…
The mechanikos or civil engineer is a decisive choice for the success of your construction. Here’s why…
- Beware of the history of the land which makes things unbuildable especially since 1978 but it can go back very far
- No merger
- At the building permit the land is checked again because there is no confidence in the notary
- New responsibility since 2022
The fees
- TEE
- The various taxes for obtaining the building permit
- KEP
- IKA
- GREENPAY
The difficulty
Not the same way of living
Don’t let yourself be imposed on how you will live
The anecdote of the table with 8 people
Often the plan of a house already made
Swimming pool
What we offer you
- PHOTOGRAMMETRY
- 3D MODELIZATION
- Blender and Archipack to move in a simulated way in the house with lighting and composing light. It will always be better than Kalymnos’ photorealistic
Tips
Avoid derogations, the more precise your scheme is, the more legal your house will be, which is important for resale
Attention for some time now, the exteriors of the house have been engaging for institutions
Do not trust for “free” arrangements. You are not Greek and we will be more demanding with you, let’s say that we will have our eyes open when others are closed for the Greeks. When problems arise some time after construction (and this happens very often), you will be alone. The manufacturer you have employed will hardly recognize you.
What we advise you: the term engineer can be misleading! In the Western world, the engineer finds solutions, he has a scientific rigor! Las, there are many interpretations of the rules of the Greek urban planning code to get you on bad tracks! There is a plethora of anecdotes from owners who could not do what they wanted on their land for rather “obscure” and completely incomprehensible reasons!! Kind of fun!
Even if you pay them their fees, they don’t really give off the impression of really working for you, but rather for them!!! So invest in your project, have a critical sense, do not hesitate to ask questions, to impose your will….. or ask us to do it for you!!!
For any kind of quiries, Please call
00 (33) 749589162
Aghios Konstantinos , 1st
85400 Leros