DIRECCIÓN Y GESTIÓN DE PROYECTO: TERMINOLOGÍA PARA EL SECTOR DE LA EDIFICACIÓN EN ESPAÑA

Abstract

The 2008 financial crisis, followed by the collapse of the Real Estate bubble, has caused the deepest crisis ever experienced by the Spanish building industry. Housing prices rising until then at incredible annual rates explained why cost or time management had become secondary issues for certain small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in a construction industry with only a 0,1% of large companies in 2013. Nowadays, a rapid and wide implementation of best practices of Project Management (PM), has become strategic objectives for the building SMEs as well as for all the other stakeholders involved in the building process, not just to improve their performance, but even to survive in the current circumstances, when private and public resources are scarce. The lack of a terminology aligned with the Spanish regulatory and legal framework is an obstacle for the diffusion of the PM theories and practices based on embodied sets of knowledge. The objective of this paper is to cover this gap, proposing a set of Spanish terms and definitions that correspond to the terminology in the main international PM standards or bodies of knowledge, aligning them to the building regulatory framework and specific characteristics of the Spanish industry.