Building

Building – „a building is an enclosed and/or roofed structure made as a residence for people, that is, accommodation of animals, plants and things “.

According to the Law of Ownership and Other Proprietary Rights, all buildings which have more than three owners fall within the managing system so that, for example, a sequence of more than four garages in a row also falls within the system of building management.

On the other hand, it is possible to say, when talking about building management, that within a single, enclosed and/or roofed building, there can be more than one building. For example, in the case of a row of buildings with separate entrances (each having its own street number), all interconnected into one unique enclosed building.

In the case of two or more such buildings sharing a common interest, for example a new roof and/or facade, they can be connected into one building with a single manager.

Common areas are all parts of the building and its infrastructure (plumbing, electrical, gas and other installations, elevators for example), which do not belong to apartments and other spaces owned by individual natural and/or legal persons.

Such common areas of the building are maintained with funds from the reserve.

Unless decided differently by the homeowners in the Management Contract, common areas and infrastructure are:

• Bearing structure of the building (foundations, bearing walls, pillars, floor structure, roof structure…),
• Roof of the building,
• Common terraces,
• Facade of the building with windows and doors,
• Protection from the elements on common parts of the building (blinds, shutters…),
• Metalwork in common areas of the building,
• Chimneys and ventilation canals, hydrants, fire-systems, fire extinguishers in common areas of the building,
• Communal staircase and fences,
• Fire access, doors, ladder and stairway,
• Elevators in communal part of the building, with all associated installations and appliances needed for their usage,
• Gas installations and installations for supplying electrical energy, up until the meter inside the apartment or other special part of the building,
• Sewage installations, main vertical and horizontal lines and basic installations, inspection chambers,
• Plumbing installations from the main water-gauge of the building to the separation of the installation into each apartment or other special part of the building, that is up to the water meter in the apartment or some other special part of the building,
• Electrical installations for hallway and emergency lighting, as well as for other electrical appliances inside communal parts of the building, such as the main electrical panel with the timer, electrical installations for apartments and special parts of the building up to the meter in the apartment or some other special part of the building,
• Communal installations for central heating and central equipment for hot water up to the radiator valve, that is, up to the valve of the appliance inside the apartment or some other special part of the building,
• Radiators and other heat emitters in communal areas of the building,
• Telephone installations, up to the point of separation into the apartment or other special part of the building,
• Communal tv and/or radio antenna installations, cable and satellite installations with amplifiers and other communal appliances, up to the point of separation into the apartment or other special part of the building,
• Installations and appliances for bells, electrical locks and interphones, to the point of separation into each apartment or other special part of the building,
• Communal boiler room and heat sub-station, communal hydrophore plants, water wells, pre-pumping stations for wastewater, water-pumping stations, electrical aggregates, flashlights and other lighting appliances, motion of the elevator, lightning-rod installations, garbage canals, septic tanks.