Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, an expert Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides commercial management support to clients engaged in projects throughout the Infrastructure, Building, Rail and Bus transportation, Telecommunications, Renewable Energy, Mining and Oil and Gas industries.
We utilize dual-qualified engineers-lawyers with first-hand project experience that have most likely handled a matter on their projects in similar circumstances to what brought you to this website.
Our offering includes Contract evaluation and formation 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 involve 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 prior to entering into the law.
We can help you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering expertise and on-site construction experience allows us to interpret, analyse and provide contract suggestions throughout 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 in addition to FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and conditions and recommend modifications that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract minimises risks. Prior to you sign any type of arrangement, we will certainly make sure that it is in your benefits and that you understand your direct exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a detailed contract analysis identifying the crucial terms and conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to identify the cause, result and merit of any type of claim.
Our written claims include plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Prior to we refer the issue to adjudication, we will also identify the demand for affidavits and expert reports to guarantee that claims have the ability to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are skilled representing our clients in formal and casual dispute proceedings, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will certainly guide you via the legal process, and work towards a resolution of your dispute in the shortest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We offer in-house planning and scheduling services. When delays do happen, we analyse the baseline schedule and progress updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We determine delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance prices making use of gained values or measured mile approaches to establish the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents existing delay and disruption information in particularised and auditable layout.
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 toughness and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common understanding that the source of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns have a tendency to be centred in insufficient project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and bad contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity checking capabilities to assist our clients devise comprehensive project development procurement and having strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We normally manage the resolution of claims separately. This maximizes the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to concentrate on their primary objective of delivering the project. The advantages of this technique 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 at all is shed in understanding the issues influencing cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Group and communicating them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify appropriate partners that cause teaming arrangements and the setting up of effective joint endeavors. We prepared winning proposals developing economic instances needed by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to get money for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting select the appropriate type of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We then assist run the ECI phase (if called for), acquire planning and authority approvals and prepare the needed Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, consulting contracts and distributor arrangements. We also aid with contract reviews, consisting of preparing tender qualifications, discussing final contracts and drafting any needed modifications. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a path of problems, some deep underground where they are difficult to rectify. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable problems, insurance, proprietor or professional self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted on significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the diverse abilities needed to cover all elements of insurance suggestions and insurance claims management.
Our expertise includes policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and standing for clients in front of insurance firms.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist procurement and contract administration resources to contractors during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for purchase of long-lead products, fabrication and modularization, transport and setup.
Identify counterclaims and apply liquidated problems. Insurance claims for layout liability, performance below specification, insufficient jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication procedure.