After starting construction on 26 July 2000 and a very intense building process of only 15 months the handing-over to the sole tenant Microsoft AG took place at the end of November 2001. The hightech building, characterized through its transparency, offers on five floors (total-ling 7'357 m2rentable surface) attractive and modern working places for approximately 400 employees. The underground parking directly connected with the building counts 122 parking spaces.

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también podría usarse \"ceremony\" tal como viene abajo
Suerte

Ministry of Cultural Heritage
... The building of the Hungarian National Museum has been repainted several times since ... Lotz
from 1875, will be finished this year, the handing over ceremony is ...
www.nkom.hu/ossztart/bavarians_1000ys.shtml - 19k - Cached - Similar

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THIS IS A PRIVATE CONTRACT - PLEASE DO NOT CONSIDER MY PREVIOUS ANSWERS - Thanks

Hand-Over
A process of transfer of responsibility for all or part of a project or its deliverables. Typically, this takes place at the end of a project or a major part thereof. See also Completion and Project Closeout. [D02819]
PD-U
Hand-Over Phase
The fourth phase in the generic project life cycle covers completion of the project to the satisfaction of the sponsor. It includes management of the introduction of the product or service being delivered by the project. During Hand-Over, project records together with an audit trail documentation are completed and delivered to the sponsor. This documentation will be required at the post project evaluation review. All documentation should include any operations and maintenance plans. If not to be conducted in a post-project evaluation review, there should also be a review of the original business case, i.e. a Benefits Assessment. [D03438]

www.pmforum.org/library/glossary/PMG_H00.htm
comparative glossary of Project Management Terms.

BRE lead project for building **handover protocol**. Buildings that are
not properly handed over to new owners or managers are unlikely ...
www.insidecom.co.uk/eibi/editorial/eibi228.html



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UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions


A building with a life of 50 years could have numerous different operators over this period of time. A robust method of ensuring lifelong building and services operation is required. This project will address these needs by building on earlier work, dealing with the collection and delivery of the detailed information, and developing **a protocol for handover** that will enable managers to operate buildings as they were designed to perform.

www.databases.odpm.gov.uk/construction/ project_detail.asp?PactReference=CC2011

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\"Protocol\" is a word that makes a document, a report, a statement official. If anything should happen this holds legal value.

The handover stage of a building is when it has reached practical completion. It is inspected by the architect and possession is returned to the building owner, the client. Handover and the issue of the certificate of practical completion start the defects liability period (this is why you often see the words "con reserva" or "sin reserva" after acta de recepción de la obra - there may or may not be defects that have to be put right before the issue of the final certificate). With practical completion, the building does not have to be perfect, only reasonably fit for occupation.

Please see the reference below for an example of this acta in Spanish (I can't copy it, sorry):

DOC]Número 83 Jueves, 11 de Abril de 2002 Página 5199
File Format: Microsoft Word 2000 - View as HTML
... hayan. emitido, según modelo que figura como Anexo IV. b. 2) Acta
de recepción de la obra, según modelo que. figura como Anexo V. ...
www.centrosdeempleormurcia.net/archivodocumental/ documentos/equipamiento%20igualdad.doc - Similar pages

Info taken from the Building Dictionary


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The acta is most definitely a document you have to sign and if you run my suggestion through Google, you can see quite a few examples.

or Certificate of Acceptance of the Works

Ref.: Glosario Marina Orellana