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Does the law oblige me to have a project or is a quotation enough?
It depends which installation it is and on what kind of works. In fire protection, RIPCI (the Spanish fire protection installations regulation) requires the installation to be backed by a project or by technical documentation signed by a competent engineer, and to be carried out by an authorised installer company; the scope of that document changes depending on whether the works fall under the Código Técnico, under the regulation for industrial premises, or are a standalone installation in an existing building. In new build, on top of that, fire protection goes inside the building project.
In electronic security —cameras, access, intruder detection— there is not always a formal obligation to have a project, and that is why so much gets signed on two sheets of paper. The obligations come from elsewhere: whoever installs a system connected to an alarm receiving centre has to be a security company entered in the relevant register, and the handling of the images has obligations of its own. These are verifiable facts and it is worth asking for them before signing, from anybody.
Our position does not depend on whether the law asks for it in that case: we do not sign off an installation we cannot document afterwards. A system that works but cannot be justified to an inspection or to an insurer is good for half the things it was bought for, and that gets discovered the day the paperwork is needed.
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