5. Preparatory studies are used as the basis for a design and for conclusions or recommendations related to the carrying out of the project when, in the client’s opinion, the project requires such studies.
They consist of research, exploration, surveys, detailed programs, measurement of the area of land involved in a program, analysis of conditions of possible solutions, economic studies and studies of development costs and surveys of existing works.
D. 1235-87 (French only), a. 5; O.C. 195-2023.