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Closing and Reporting

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It often happens that closing and reporting do not deserve particular attention from the contractor or consultant Project Manager, however, they are important. This chapter analyzes diverse situations that imply risk specifically related to an owner being dissatisfied owing to a deficiency of documentation in quantity and quality handed over, or perhaps due to a lack of quality in finishing concrete work, or through failure to clean the site. The chapter analyzes these aspects, pointing out that closing-out a project is a process as important as the rest of the processes in the project’s life cycle, and examines the need to produce a good Technical Memory that must incorporate a string of information not only related to the work done, but also to be used as a future reference. This chapter continues with the production of ‘As built’ drawings, a fundamental document that depicts the real condition of the project, which may differ from the original planning, as well as the need to produce a complete and trusty report.