Acceptance of structural concrete components

Legal point of view

Legal basis: the work

This title alone is remarkable from a legal standpoint because the legal consideration starts from the work. The work whose production the contractor committed to is accepted in the legal sense. This work may consist of very different structural concrete elements, which, in their entirety, make up the structure. As a rule, however, no acceptance of individual precast elements is performed. The acceptance procedure with legal implications must be distinguished from an acceptance that is merely of a technical nature (= determining the condition; section 4(10) VOB/B -...

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