Cultural infrastructure planning
Introduction
The Culture Infrastructure and Equipment Management (GIEC) is a Spanish public body "Public body (Spain)"), attached to the Ministry of Culture "Ministry of Culture (Spain)"), responsible for the execution of infrastructures and equipment that are the responsibility of the Ministry, as well as the management of the real estate assets affected by the Department.
The Management is attached to the Secretary of State of the Department, whose head assumes the presidency of the organization.[3] The headquarters of the organization is located on Alfonso XII Street, numbers 3 and 5, in Cerro de San Blas in Madrid. The building corresponds to the old School of Civil Engineers, built between 1886 and 1888 by the architect Mariano Carderera.[4].
History
The GIEC was born by Decree of February 22, 1957, by which the Central Board of School Constructions was created, a body dependent on the then Ministry of National Education "Ministry of National Education (Spain)"), whose objective was to channel, direct and inspect the management of the Provincial Boards.[5] These, regulated in the Order of July 23, 1955, were responsible in each province of the construction and subsequent equipment of primary and secondary educational centers.
After decades of exclusive work in the educational field, and as a consequence of the unification of the Ministries of Education and Culture in 1996, the Board, known since 1971 as Construction, Facilities and School Equipment Board,[6] and since 1995 as Education and Science Infrastructure and Equipment Management,[7] was renamed Education Infrastructure and Equipment Management and Culture. Its functions focused on the execution of cultural, educational and administrative infrastructures and facilities that were the responsibility of the Ministry of Education and Culture "Ministry of Education and Culture (Spain)"), as well as the management of the real estate assets affected by the Department.
The Infrastructure and Equipment Management gradually stopped assuming educational responsibilities by passing these on to the autonomous communities, and focused on cultural infrastructures such as archives, libraries, museums, auditoriums, cinematography, etc. The approval of the new ministerial plant, and the recovery of the Ministry of Culture "Ministerio de Cultura (Spain)") in 2004, led to the organization being renamed (GIEC).[8][9].