Architectural Malpractice

Public Housing

Situation

An owner-developer engaged an architect to design a public housing facility. The owner-developer sued the architect for delays alleging the architect design documents required a significant number of clarifications to the construction contractor, thus delaying the facility's opening.

Investigation

The DiGeronimo Investigation, looked for but, could not find any evidence of the transfer of monies to the contractor that would indicate delays had occurred.

The DiGeronimo Investigation determined that the two parties, consisting of the contractor and the owner-developer, arranged to fabricate a malpractice claim against the architect.

The DiGeronimo Investigation found that the alleged expenses and monetary claim sought by the owner-developer was fabricated, as there was no accountable evidence of money being paid out by the owner-developer.

Result