Building project management

Building project management

Services

Building project management activities include the following tasks:

  • financial, legal and technical consulting pertaining to the design, construction, use and removal of construction works;
  • financial, legal and technical preparation and planning of tasks pertaining to building, and monitoring the implementation of this plan;
  • programming and planning at the stage of project conception, which includes data collection, project programme development, and monitoring the implementation of this programme;
  • consulting, selecting and contracting tasks for designers, design auditors, supervising engineers, contractors,  certified geodetic engineers and other persons performing tasks pertaining to the building of construction  works, and consulting in contracting tasks with these persons;
  • linking and coordinating the work of designers, design auditors, supervising engineers, contractors, certified geodetic engineers and other persons participating in building, and supervision of their work for purposes of protecting the rights and interests of the investor;
  • obtaining acts, analyses, studies, expert reports and other documents necessary for the development of conceptual, main and detailed designs and of designs for the removal of construction works;
  • obtaining all documents and concluding all legal transactions required for the issuance of administrative acts for the implementation of physical plans, construction, use and/or  removal of construction works, and the obtaining of these administrative acts;
  • obtaining all documents and concluding all legal transactions required for the construction of a
    construction work and the performance of actions that the investor is required to perform during the construction of a construction work.
  • development of project control systems and monitoring and control of realisation, which includes preparation and presentation of planned timelines for execution with engaged resources, updating of initial plans in relation to project realisation, dynamic risk analysis throughout the life cycle of the project, reports on quality control of investment realisation, proposals for solutions of ongoing or envisaged problems in terms of time, technological and cost-related aspects of realisation.

FREEDOM TO PROVIDE CROSS-BORDER SERVICES

A legal or natural person – craftsman who pursues the activity of building project management and who is already established in another EEA country may temporarily or occasionally provide services in Croatia.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ESTABLISHMENT

A legal or natural person – craftsman established in another EEA state who pursues the activity of building project management may permanently perform the activity in Croatia under the same conditions as a person established in Croatia.

The building project management activity may be performed by a legal or natural person – craftsman, provided that:

  • it is registered for performing building project management activities
  • has a project manager in its employment.

A legal or natural person – craftsman performing the building project management activities in respect of a specific construction work may not be the contractor for this construction work.

The employee of a legal person or natural person – craftsman performing the building project management activities in respect of a specific construction work may not be the supervising engineer for this construction work.

Investors that are deemed to be public clients shall appoint a project manager when:

  • investing funds in the construction of infrastructural and other construction works, except roads, of a total investment value in excess of HRK 10,000,000.00 (EUR 1.327.228,08) before VAT;
  • investing funds in the construction of roads of a total investment value in excess of HRK 50,000,000.00 (EUR 6.636.140,42) before VAT;
  • investing funds in the construction of public purpose buildings of a total investment value in excess of HRK 35,000,000.00 (EUR 4.645.298,29) before VAT.
  • investing funds in the simultaneous construction of several buildings that are partly or entirely intended for housing, are built in the territory of the same city or municipality and have more than hundred apartments in total.

Requirements for project managers

A project manager is a natural person who:

  • has at least eight years of work experience in carrying out the relevant tasks, with an education in the scientific field of technical sciences in one of the scientific fields of: architecture and urban planning, civil engineering, electrical engineering or mechanical engineering;
  • has completed an undergraduate and graduate university study programme or an integrated undergraduate and graduate university study programme that awards the academic title of a Master’s degree or a Master of Engineering degree, or who has successfully completed the corresponding specialist graduate professional study programme in the above fields that awards the professional title of professional specialist engineer, provided that during his entire studies he earned at least 300 ECTS credits, or who has acquired in another manner the appropriate level of education and possesses:
  • an internationally recognised certificate of competency in project management; or
  • education in the scientific field of technical sciences in one of the scientific fields of: architecture and urban planning, civil engineering, electrical engineering or mechanical engineering with an educational programme that includes at least 30 ECTS credits in the fields relevant to the management of building projects.

Internationally recognised systems are:

  • competence certification system of the International Project Management Association (IPMA), based in Switzerland;
  • competence certification system of the US-based Project Management Institute (PMI).

Curricula include subjects in:

  • project planning and audit
  • building project management
  • contractual right to build
  • building regulations
  • human resources management
  • business system organisation in construction
  • organisation of construction.

Certified natural persons from another EEA state

The tasks of project manager may in Croatia be permanently performed by a certified natural person from another EEA state who has undergone the procedure for the recognition of foreign professional qualifications.

Recognition of qualifications  

Application for recognition of a foreign professional qualification for performing building project management activities:

The request shall be accompanied by the following documentation, in copies and translation, according to the general system:

  • copy of identity card
  • diploma/certificate and diploma supplement/certificate supplement
  • evidence of authorization to practice the regulated profession in the country of origin

or

confirmation from the employer that the candidate has pursued the profession for at least one year during the last ten-year period which preceded the provision of services, in case that the profession in the state of establishment of the certified person is not regulated

  • proof of paid fee

Fees

CROATIAN CHAMBER OF ARCHITECTS

EUR 400 for the recognition of a qualification under the general system

Payee: Croatian Chamber of Architects, Zagreb, Ulica grada Vukovara 271

Account number: IBAN HR462360000 1500184955

For payments from abroad: SWIFT: ZABAHR2X

The purpose of the payment: surname, name (applicant) – fee recognition of qualifications

CROATIAN CHAMBER OF CIVIL ENGINEERS

EUR 500 for the recognition of a qualification under the general system

Payee: Croatian Chamber of Civil Engineers, Zagreb, Ulica grada Vukovara 271

Account number: HR3823600001500184711 Zagrebačka banka d.d.

For payments from abroad: SWIFT: ZABAHR2X

The purpose of the payment: surname, name (applicant) – fee recognition of qualifications

CROATIAN CHAMBER OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS

EUR 500 for the recognition of a qualification under the general system

Payee: Croatian Chamber of Electrical Engineers, Zagreb, Ulica grada Vukovara 271

Account number: IBAN HR7823600001102094148

For payments from abroad: SWIFT: ZABAHR2X

The purpose of the payment: surname, name (applicant) – fee recognition of qualifications

CROATIAN CHAMBER OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS

EUR 400 for the recognition of a qualification under the general system

Payee: Croatian Chamber of Mechanical Engineers, Zagreb, Ulica grada Vukovara 271

Account number: IBAN: HR5623600001102094156, Zagrebačka banka d.d.

For payments from abroad: SWIFT: ZABAHR2X

The purpose of the payment: surname, name (applicant) – fee recognition of qualifications

Application

First option: e-services available to EU/EEA citizens:

e-service for the architectural profession

e-service for the civil engineering profession

e-service for the electrical engineering profession

e-service for the mechanical engineering profession

Second option: to send photographed or scanned documentation; with signature and without seal

clanstvo@arhitekti-hka.hr for the architectural profession

info@hkig.hr for the civil engineering profession

elektroinzenjeri@hkie.hr for electrical engineering profession

info@hkis.hr for mechanical engineering profession

Competent authority and regulations

Ministry of Physical Planning, Construction and State Assets

Ulica Republike Austrije 20, Zagreb

+385 1 3782 404

strani.izvodaci@mpgi.hr

Croatian Chamber of Architects

Ulica grada Vukovara 271, Zagreb

+385 1 5508 411

clanstvo@arhitekti-hka.hr

Croatian Chamber of Civil Engineers

Ulica grada Vukovara 271, Zagreb

+385 1 5508 447

info@hkig.hr.hr

Croatian Chamber of Electrical Engineers

Ulica grada Vukovara 271, Zagreb

+385 1 5508 444

elektroinzenjeri@hkie.hr

Croatian Chamber of Mechanical Engineers

Vukovarska 271, Zagreb

+385 1 7775 571

info@hkis.hr

Act on Physical Planning and Building Tasks and Activities (OG 78/15, 118/18 i 110/19)

Ordinance on professional examination of persons performing construction and physical planning tasks (OG 129/15)

Articles of Association of the Croatian Chamber of Architects (OG 15/21)

Ordinance on the conditions for temporary or occasional provision of services and recognition of foreign professional qualifications

Decision on administrative fees of the Croatian Chamber of Architects

List of all forms of the Croatian Chamber of Architects

Articles of Association of the Croatian Chamber of Civil Engineers

Ordinance on conditions and procedure for issuing certificates for the temporary and occasional provision of services and recognition of foreign qualifications for persons of the civil engineering profession

Decision on fees for services provided by the Croatian Chamber of Civil Engineers

List of all forms of the Croatian Chamber of Civil Engineers

List of acts of the Croatian Chamber of Electrical Engineers

List of all forms of the Croatian Chamber of Electrical Engineers

Articles of Association of the Croatian Chamber of Mechanical Engineers

Ordinance on conditions and procedure for issuing certificates for the temporary and occasional provision of services and recognition of foreign qualifications for persons of the mechanical engineering profession

Request for issuing a public document

List of all forms of the Croatian Chamber of Mechanical Engineers

Authorization

Croatian Chamber of Architects; Croatian Chamber of Civil Engineers; Croatian Chamber of Electrical Engineers;

Croatian Chamber of Mechanical Engineers

Decision on recognition of foreign qualifications

Deadline: 30 days

Legal remedies

You may submit a complaint within 15 days from the date of delivery of the decision.

The complaint shall be submitted to:

  • Croatian Chamber of Architects, Ulica grada Vukovara 271, 10000 Zagreb or at clanstvo@arhitekti-hka.hr for the architectural profession
  • Croatian Chamber of Civil Engineers, Ulica grada Vukovara 271, 10000 Zagreb or at info@hkig.hr for the civil engineering profession
  • Croatian Chamber of Electrical Engineers, Ulica grada Vukovara 271, 10000 Zagreb or at elektroinzenjeri@hkie.hr for the electrical engineering profession
  • Croatian Chamber of Mechanical Engineers, Ulica grada Vukovara 271, 10000 Zagreb or at info@hkis.hr for the mechanical engineering profession

The competent Chamber will reject the complaint (if it is untimely), will replace the contested decision with a new one (if the complaint is partially or fully founded) or will submit the complaint to the Ministry of Physical Planning, Construction and State Assets.

The Ministry may reject the complaint, annul the decision in part or in full, or amend it.

The decision of the Ministry shall be delivered to the party through the Chamber no later than 60 days from the submission of a proper complaint.

No appeal may be lodged against the decision of the Ministry, but an administrative dispute may be initiated with the competent Administrative Court of the Republic of Croatia within 30 days of receipt of the decision.

Last updated on 3 March 2023

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