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 who have likely handled a matter on their projects in similar situations to what brought you to this website.
Our offering includes 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 office that requires to be helped by a "team of experts" when you have access to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects prior to entering the law.
We can help you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering experience and on-site construction experience enables 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 conformity in addition to FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and suggest amendments that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Before you sign any agreement, we will certainly make sure that it is in your benefits which 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 determine the cause, impact and merit of any claim.
Our created claims include plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the issue to adjudication, we will also establish the need for affidavits and expert reports to ensure that claims have the ability to withstand any scrutiny. We are experienced substituting our clients in formal and casual dispute process, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will direct you with 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 occur, we analyse the baseline schedule and progression updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We identify delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance rates using earned values or measured mile approaches to figure out 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 toughness and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common expertise that the origin of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns often 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 capacities to assist our clients devise all-inclusive 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 allows the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to concentrate on their key objective of delivering the project. The advantages of this method 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 lost in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Team and communicating them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify suitable companions that cause teaming agreements and the establishing of successful joint ventures. We prepared winning proposals developing economic cases needed by Financial Institutions that enabled 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 right kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We after that help run the ECI phase (if needed), obtain planning and authority authorizations and prepare the called for Teaming Arrangements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, speaking with contracts and provider arrangements. We also assist with contract reviews, consisting of preparing tender qualifications, discussing final contracts and drafting any type of required amendments. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a route of problems, some deep underground where they are impossible to fix. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable flaws, insurance, proprietor or professional self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted on major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the diverse skills needed to cover all aspects of insurance guidance and insurance claims management.
Our proficiency consists of policy interpretation and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and standing for clients in front of insurance providers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert purchase and contract administration sources to specialists during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for purchase of long-lead things, fabrication and modularization, transport and installment.
Identify counterclaims and use liquidated problems. Insurance claims for layout liability, performance below specification, insufficient works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication procedure.