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THERMAL INSTALLATIONS IN BUILDINGS
This catalogue includes the necessary procedures for the constitution and start-up of business initiatives related to thermal installation activities in buildings.
Thermal installations in buildings are defined as fixed air-conditioning installations (heating, cooling and ventilation) intended to meet the demand for thermal comfort and hygiene of people, or installations intended for the production of domestic hot water, including interconnections to urban heating or cooling networks and automation and control systems.
It refers to both thermal installations in new and existing buildings and their renovation, maintenance, use and inspection.
This activity does not include thermal installations for industrial, agricultural or other processes that are not intended to meet the thermal comfort and hygiene needs of people.
Before starting their activities, companies that install or provide maintenance services for thermal installations in buildings must submit by electronic means a statement of compliance in which the owner or legal representative declares the activities to be carried out by the company, either as an installer or maintenance company, or both activities. Such person must also state that he or she fulfils the conditions required to carry them out.
Once the statement of compliance has been submitted, the company will be registered in the Register of companies installing or providing maintenance services for thermal installations in buildings, and it will be authorised to carry out the declared activities, following prior notification to the municipality of the start of the activity, which does not exempt from compliance with other aspects related to the regulatory and sectoral reference framework.
Royal Decree 1027/2007, of 20 July, which approves the Regulation on thermal installations in buildings (RITE).
Decree 51/2011, of 17 March, updating the regulations on industrial safety in the Autonomous Region of Galicia for their adaptation to Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market.
