Ouray County is planning to spend more than $60,000 on a forensic engineer to diagnose problems with the heating and cooling system in the courthouse, which underwent an $8.8 million renovation project just three years ago.

The county has hired Golden engineer Bob Barrett to conduct a three-phase analysis of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system in the building to understand why there have been multiple failures of compressors in condensing units, causing problems with temperature ...