109 VISITS TO SITE. During the design of the Project, the Professional shall visit the Project Site as required and shall obtain and study available record drawings, investigate existing conditions, visual topographic and site data, and the Client Agency’s available future plans. Such documentation shall be obtained for the purpose of acquiring any and all pertinent or necessary information as to local conditions not required to be shown, or shown without complete detail, on the Plat of Survey and Report of Survey furnished by the Department, which may affect the design of the Project and the necessity for special provisions or wording in the Specifications. The Professional shall verify in writing to the Department, no later than with its Schematic Submission, that it has requested and obtained pertinent interference documentation from all utility companies, the Client Agency, and any other entity that may have underground or concealed lines or objects in the area of the proposed construction. The Professional shall verify project related existing conditions by visual inspection and measurement and not by sole reliance on the Record Documents or the Land Survey. If any corrective or additional work becomes necessary by reason of such failure to obtain all necessary, clarifying and available data for a proper and correct design of the Project, the Professional shall reimburse the Department for the cost of such corrective or additional work to the extent that such costs exceed the costs that would have been payable if the initial design had taken such data into proper consideration.
