Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, a specialist Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides business management assistance to clients participated in projects throughout 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 a matter on their projects in comparable situations to what brought you to this website.
Our offering contains 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 Firm that requires to be helped by a "group of experts" when you have access to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects before entering the law.
We can help you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering experience and on-site construction experience allows 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 as well as FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard conditions and recommend modifications that transfer or re-assign high or unnecessary risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Before you authorize any arrangement, we will certainly make sure that it remains in your best interests which you understand your direct exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a thorough contract analysis identifying the essential terms and conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to figure out the cause, impact and merit of any type of claim.
Our composed claims contain plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the matter to adjudication, we will certainly also establish the demand for affidavits and expert records to ensure that claims are able to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are knowledgeable substituting our clients in formal and informal dispute process, and regularly brief 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 provide 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 establish delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance rates making use of earned values or measured mile techniques to figure out the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents present delay and disruption information 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 help our clients understand the strengths and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common understanding 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 bad contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount surveying abilities to help our clients devise all-encompassing project development purchase and having strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We generally manage the resolution of claims independently. This liberates the hands and enables the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to focus on their key purpose of delivering the project. The advantages 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 very own right, no time at all is shed in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Team and interacting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify suitable companions that bring about teaming contracts and the setting up of effective joint endeavors. We prepared winning proposals developing economic cases called for by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to acquire money for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS helping select the ideal sort of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We then assist run the ECI phase (if required), acquire planning and authority authorizations and prepare the required Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, consulting contracts and supplier agreements. We also assist with contract reviews, consisting of preparing tender certifications, bargaining final contracts and drafting any kind of called for changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of problems, some deep underground where they are difficult to remedy. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable problems, insurance, owner or professional self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted on significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the varied abilities needed to cover all aspects of insurance recommendations and insurance claims management.
Our expertise consists of policy interpretation and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and standing for clients before insurance providers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert purchase and contract administration resources to specialists during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for purchase of long-lead things, fabrication and modularization, transport and installation.
Identify counterclaims and use sold off problems. Insurance claims for layout liability, efficiency listed below specification, incomplete works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication procedure.