ABSTRACT
Chile has the National Strategic Program on Productivity and Sustainable Construction, Construye2025, which emerged as a result of the Productivity, Innovation and Growth Agenda presented by President Bachelet in 2014 with the aim of laying the foundations for a new phase of development of the economy. Chile has an important body of laws directly or indirectly related to the construction industry. This chapter presents a review of the most important ones due to their impact and the consequences they produce in the construction sector. Employment law is applicable to all labor relationships between employers and workers. There are three main categories of workers: indefinite term, fixed term and special project workers. The Regulation of Public Works Contracts governs contracts with local or overseas private companies interested in participating in infrastructure projects financed by the Ministry of Public works. The most common type of contract used in Chile for construction projects is the lump sum or fixed-price contract.
