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Perit Warrant Exam · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Construction Law and Legal Framework

  • Map the Spanish construction-law hierarchy (Ley de Ordenación de la Edificación, Código Técnico de la Edificación, Ley de Contratos del Sector Público) and state which rule prevails in a conflict

  • Identify the parties and their duties under the LOE (promotor, proyectista, constructor, director de obra, director de ejecución, entidades de control) and write a one-line duty summary for each

  • Distinguish the ten-year, three-year and one-year liability periods and match each to the defect type it covers

  • Outline the mandatory insurance and guarantee regime that applies to each party

Your checkpoint

A two-page legal framework sheet with a hierarchy diagram, a party-duty table and a liability-period table, self-quizzed with 20 recall questions

Week 2

Construction Law and Legal Framework & Professional Practice, Ethics and Liability

  • Apply the LOE liability periods to three short defect scenarios and justify which period governs

  • Explain the professional-college duties and disciplinary framework that bind a perito in Spain

  • Differentiate the perito's roles in judicial, arbitration and insurance contexts and the scope of each

  • Draft the standard clauses of a peritación engagement (object, scope, method, fees, confidentiality)

  • Recognise the main conflict-of-interest and independence traps in expert appointment

Your checkpoint

A model engagement letter and a 600-word ethics case note resolving two conflicts of interest using cited rules

Week 3

Building Measurement and Budgeting (Mediciones y Presupuestos)

  • Break a building into its measurement units and apply the correct criteria for each (m2 constructed, m2 useful, linear, unit, weight)

  • Compute a priced budget from a measured quantity list using a unit-price breakdown (material, labour, machinery, indirect)

  • Build a simple bill of quantities with chapters, codes and rounding conventions

  • Calculate the percentages for overheads, industrial profit and VAT and show how they stack

  • Produce a certified valuation (certificación de obra) for a partial month with retention applied

Your checkpoint

A complete spreadsheet budget for a small two-storey house: quantities, unit prices, chapter subtotals, overheads, profit, VAT and one certification

Week 4

Construction Technology and Materials & Structural Analysis and Design

  • Select the correct structural system and material for four given building typologies and justify each choice

  • Read a reinforced-concrete and a steel member schedule and extract the reinforcement and section data

  • Explain the load path from slab to beam to column to foundation and identify the critical members

  • Compute simple bending, shear and deflection checks for a simply supported beam

  • Identify the common construction pathologies (thermal bridging, damp, cracking) and their typical causes

Your checkpoint

A pathology and structure report on a described building: load path sketch, one worked beam calculation and five defects with cause and remedy

Week 5

Building Services and Installations

  • Size the basic elements of a water supply and drainage installation from fixture units and flow rates

  • Explain the design logic of a low-voltage electrical installation (supply, protection, earthing) and size a feeder

  • Describe the ventilation, heating and air-conditioning options for a residential building and their regulatory drivers

  • Locate the mandatory fire-safety measures for a given building use and height

Your checkpoint

An installation dossier for a described dwelling: one-line supply and drainage schematic, electrical single-line diagram and a fire-measures checklist

Week 6

Project Management and Site Organization & Urban Planning and Land Use

  • Build a critical-path schedule for a small works project and identify the float on each activity

  • Draft a site layout plan covering access, storage, crane position, welfare and waste

  • Prepare a quality-control plan with inspection points and acceptance criteria

  • Classify land by planning category (urban, urbanizable, no urbanizable) and state the development rights attached to each

  • Explain how the PGOU and the applicable regional planning law constrain a building permit

Your checkpoint

A site organisation pack (schedule with critical path, layout sketch, quality plan) plus a one-page planning classification note for a described plot

Week 7

Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

  • Apply the CTE energy-saving requirements (HE1 to HE5) to a described building and list the compliance checks

  • Interpret an energy performance certificate and explain the scale and the main drivers of a poor rating

  • Compare passive design measures (orientation, insulation, shading, thermal mass) for their cost-effectiveness

  • Identify the main renewable options for a residential building and their integration constraints

Your checkpoint

An energy assessment of one described dwelling: compliance checklist against HE1-HE5, an EPC rating estimate with justification and five ranked improvement measures with payback logic

Week 8

Construction Law and Legal Framework & Building Measurement and Budgeting (Mediciones y Presupuestos) & Construction Technology and Materials & Structural Analysis and Design & Building Services and Installations & Project Management and Site Organization & Urban Planning and Land Use & Energy Efficiency and Sustainability & Professional Practice, Ethics and Liability

  • Complete two full timed mock exams under exam conditions and score each by domain

  • Redo every question missed in the mocks and write the underlying rule or criterion for each

  • Consolidate the highest-weight domains (1, 2, 3, 4) with a final recall pass on formulas and thresholds

  • Rehearse the structure of a written peritación answer under time pressure

Your checkpoint

Two scored mock exams with a domain-by-domain error log and a one-page final revision sheet of formulas, thresholds and legal periods

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 70% on a self-made 30-question quiz covering domain 1 and domain 9, and be able to state the LOE liability periods from memory

Week 4: Produce the full budget and the pathology report unaided; check that unit prices reconcile to chapter subtotals and that the beam calculation matches a hand check

Week 6: Explain the critical path of the schedule and the planning classification of the plot without notes, and confirm the site pack is complete

Week 8: Average at least 65% across the two mock exams with no domain below 50%, and show a written error log covering every missed question