Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, a specialist Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides industrial management assistance to clients participated in projects across the Infrastructure, Building, Rail and Bus transportation, Telecommunications, Renewable Energy, Mining and Oil and Gas industries.
We employ dual-qualified engineers-lawyers with first-hand project experience that have likely handled an issue on their projects in similar circumstances to what brought you to this website.
Our offering includes Contract evaluation and development services, strategy and administration, Planning, Scheduling, EoT, Prolongation, Disruption and Acceleration Claims, Payment Claims and Schedules - Adjudication Applications & Responses, Dispute management: Expert determination, arbitration and litigation
Why engage Law office that needs to be helped by a "team of experts" when you have access to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects before coming into the law.
We can assist you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering experience and on-site construction experience enables us to interpret, analyse and provide contract recommendations across various areas such as rights, liabilities, duties, and scope under Australian Standard Contracts (AS4000 and AS2124 Series), Australian Building Industry Contracts (ABIC), Master Builders Association (MBA), NT Security of Payments Act compliance along with FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and conditions and suggest modifications that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Prior to you authorize any kind of agreement, we will certainly make sure that it remains in your best interests and that you understand your direct exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a thorough contract analysis identifying the crucial terms in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to identify the cause, impact and merit of any claim.
Our composed claims contain plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the issue to adjudication, we will also determine the demand for affidavits and expert reports to make sure that claims have the ability to withstand any scrutiny. We are knowledgeable representing our clients in formal and casual dispute procedures, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will certainly assist you via the legal process, and job in the direction of a resolution of your dispute in the fastest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We offer in-house planning and scheduling services. When delays do take place, we analyse the baseline schedule and progress updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We identify delays, concurrent delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance prices using gained values or measured mile techniques to establish the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents present delay and disruption data in particularised and auditable format.
We also prepare acceleration claims, evaluate merit, quantum and entitlement to an EoT claim and provide Third Party Independent Reports to help our clients understand the strengths and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common expertise that the source of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns tend to be centred in incomplete project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and inadequate contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount checking abilities to help our clients devise comprehensive project development procurement and having strategies to significantly de-risk any kind of project. We normally manage the resolution of claims individually. This liberates the hands and permits the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to focus on their primary purpose of delivering the project. The benefits of this strategy is a positive cashflow from the start and lower overall project administration expenditure. All of our lawyers are construction experts in their own right, no time is lost in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Group and communicating them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify ideal companions that cause teaming agreements and the establishing of effective joint ventures. We prepared winning proposals developing economic situations called for by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to get money for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting choose the right kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We after that assist run the ECI phase (if called for), acquire planning and authority authorizations and prepare the required Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, consulting contracts and supplier contracts. We also help with contract testimonials, including preparing tender qualifications, working out last contracts and drafting any called for changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a route of issues, some deep underground where they are difficult to remedy. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable defects, insurance, proprietor or specialist self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted upon major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the diverse skills required to cover all facets of insurance guidance and insurance claims management.
Our expertise consists of policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and representing clients in front of insurance providers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist purchase and contract administration sources to professionals throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for purchase of long-lead things, fabrication and modularization, transport and installment.
Identify counterclaims and apply liquidated damages. Insurance claims for layout liability, efficiency listed below specification, insufficient works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication procedure.