CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RESIDENT ENGINEER IN THE CONSTRUCTION

The resident engineer is responsible for the execution of the work, must be an engineering or architecture professional who has the necessary knowledge so that the work is executed in the best way, complying with all the contract conditions that at the beginning of the work has been legally signed.

The resident engineer is also responsible for ensuring the interests of the contractor, complying with all the technical specifications of the project, and can also deal with the preliminary planning activities of the work and the bidding phase.

Below we will mention some of the most important characteristics of a resident engineer, the first is that an engineer knows how to differentiate the activities and determining tasks within the work, know and solve internal problems that may arise, have authority and leadership skills , to know and to have the capacity of criterion and exigency before the supervicion of work.