Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, an expert Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides business management support to clients engaged in projects across 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 consists of 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 assisted by a "group of experts" when you have access to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects prior to entering 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 referrals 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 conformity in addition to FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and conditions and recommend amendments that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Before you authorize any kind of agreement, we will certainly ensure that it is in your best interests which you understand your exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct an extensive contract analysis identifying the key terms in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to establish the cause, result and merit of any kind of claim.
Our composed claims consist of plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Prior to we refer the matter to adjudication, we will also determine the requirement for affidavits and expert records to make certain that claims have the ability to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are knowledgeable acting for our clients in formal and casual dispute proceedings, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will direct you through the legal process, and job towards a resolution of your dispute in the fastest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We provide internal planning and scheduling services. When delays do take place, we analyse the baseline schedule and development updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We figure out delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and productivity prices making use of gained values or measured mile methods to identify the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents existing delay and disruption data in particularised and auditable style.
We also prepare acceleration claims, evaluate merit, quantum and entitlement to an EoT claim and provide Third Party Independent Reports to assist our clients understand the toughness and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It prevails expertise that the root causes of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns have a tendency to be centred in insufficient project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and poor contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity evaluating capacities to help our clients devise all-encompassing project development procurement and having strategies to significantly de-risk any project. We typically manage the resolution of claims separately. This frees up the hands and permits the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to concentrate on their key objective of delivering the project. The benefits of this technique is a positive cashflow from the start and lower overall project administration expenditure. Every one of our lawyers are construction experts in their own right, no time is lost in understanding the issues influencing cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Team and connecting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify appropriate companions that result in teaming arrangements and the setting up of successful joint ventures. We prepared winning propositions developing economic situations required by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to acquire financing for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting choose the right kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We then assist run the ECI phase (if required), get planning and authority approvals and prepare the needed Teaming Agreements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, getting in touch with contracts and distributor arrangements. We also aid with contract reviews, including preparing tender qualifications, working out final contracts and drafting any type of called for modifications. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of issues, some deep underground where they are impossible to fix. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable problems, insurance, owner or specialist self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted upon significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the varied skills needed to cover all aspects of insurance advice and insurance claims management.
Our experience consists of policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and standing for clients before insurers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist purchase and contract administration sources to specialists throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead items, fabrication and modularization, transport and installment.
Identify counterclaims and apply liquidated damages. Insurance claims for style liability, efficiency below specification, insufficient works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication procedure.