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 support to clients participated 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 likely handled a matter on their projects in comparable circumstances to what brought you to this website.
Our offering contains Contract review 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 Firm that requires to be assisted by a "group of experts" when you have access to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects prior to coming into the law.
We can help you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering proficiency and on-site construction experience allows us to interpret, analyse and provide contract referrals across different 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 as well as FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and conditions and suggest changes that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Prior to you sign any kind of arrangement, we will ensure that it remains in your benefits which you understand your exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a complete contract analysis identifying the key terms and conditions 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 created claims consist of plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Prior to we refer the issue to adjudication, we will certainly also establish the requirement for affidavits and expert records to ensure that claims have the ability to withstand any scrutiny. We are skilled representing our clients in formal and casual dispute procedures, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will certainly direct you through the legal process, and work towards a resolution of your dispute in the fastest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We provide in-house planning and scheduling services. When delays do take place, we analyse the standard schedule and progression updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We determine delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and productivity prices using earned values or measured mile approaches to identify the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents present 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 assist our clients understand the staminas and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It prevails knowledge that the origin of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns tend to be centred in incomplete project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and bad contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount surveying capabilities to assist our clients devise all-inclusive project development procurement and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any project. We usually manage the resolution of claims independently. 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 strategy is a positive cashflow from the start and lower overall project administration expenditure. All of our lawyers are construction experts in their very own right, no time at all is lost in understanding the issues affecting cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Team and communicating 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 effective joint ventures. We prepared winning proposals developing economic situations called for by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to obtain finance for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting select the right type of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We then help run the ECI phase (if required), acquire planning and authority approvals and prepare the required Teaming Agreements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, seeking advice from contracts and provider agreements. We also help with contract reviews, consisting of preparing tender qualifications, discussing final contracts and drafting any kind of needed modifications. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a path of issues, some deep underground where they are impossible to rectify. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable flaws, insurance, owner or specialist self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted on major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the diverse abilities required to cover all facets of insurance advice and insurance claims management.
Our expertise consists of policy interpretation and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and representing clients in front of insurance firms.
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 procurement of long-lead things, fabrication and modularization, transport and setup.
Identify counterclaims and use sold off damages. Insurance claims for style liability, efficiency listed below specification, insufficient works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication process.