Comprehensive build management Construction Project Management in Mallorca

Project Management for a build means managing the project on the owner’s behalf: planning, budgeting, coordinating the technical team, trades and suppliers, and controlling cost, time and quality through to handover. In Mallorca, it is mainly commissioned by owners who don’t live on the island or whose projects involve many parties, such as a villa with an architect, interior designer, landscape designer and pool.

The site director (director de obra) is the architect who directs the construction from a technical standpoint, together with the building engineer (aparejador), who directs the execution of the works (director de ejecución). Their duties are set by Spain’s Building Act (Ley de Ordenación de la Edificación, LOE), and they sign the final completion certificate. A Project Manager doesn’t replace them but works with them on the owner’s behalf, handling the budget, the schedule, the coordination of all parties and the information needed to decide.

Top Mallorca’s Project Management is integrated with the construction itself: the same company that manages the project also answers for what is built, so you never have a manager and a builder blaming each other. To ensure that control does not rest on trust alone, the budget is itemised, quotes from trades and suppliers are compared with you, and no change goes ahead without your prior written approval.

Project Management for a build is priced according to the size of the project, its duration and the stages you want to delegate: managing everything from buying the plot to handover does not cost the same as managing the construction phase alone. Top Mallorca proposes the scope and the fee in writing after the initial meeting, so you know from the start what is included.

Yes – in fact, it is the most common reason for hiring Project Management in Mallorca. With Top Mallorca, you have a named contact on the island who visits the site, sends you progress updates with photographs, presents each decision with its cost and its effect on the schedule, and only goes ahead with the changes you approve in writing. Meetings can be held by video call, and site visits can be timed to coincide with your trips.

The earlier, the better: ideally before the design is finalised, or even before buying the property, while the scope, budget and technical team can still be adjusted. Brought in mid-build, a Project Manager can still help regain control of costs and timescales, although by then the decisions that weigh most on the cost have already been made. Top Mallorca can be involved from the very first conversations about a property.