Oyster River Coop High School Claim


Project Name: Oyster River Cooperative High School
Location: Durham, NH
Project Value: $25,000,000
Project Owner: Oyster River Cooperative School District
Sector: Education
Time frame: 2008-2009
Legal Counsel: Divine, Millimet & Branch;
Wiggin & Nourie, P.A.
Architect: Team Design, Inc.

JGCMI Claim Involvement:

  • Retained by the owner and architect to complete a management oversight analysis on the construction manager’s performance of the project.
  • Review construction manager, architect and owner project files, retrieve pertinent documents for client’s defense and organize it as an evidential core of information.
  • Assist legal counsel in the preparation of deposition questions for fact witness and opposing expert witness.
  • Complete project cost review analysis and compare contractor’s guaranteed maximum price contract amounts to actual costs incurred and create a list of expenses that were improperly charged to the owner.
  • Issue 48-page Expert Disclosure Report with 105 exhibits that established objective cause and effect relationships associated with the management oversight of the project.