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 assistance to clients taken part 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 who have likely handled an issue on their projects in similar scenarios to what brought you to this website.
Our offering includes Contract testimonial 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 engage Law Firm that requires to be helped by a "group of experts" when you have accessibility to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects before coming into the law.
We can help you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering expertise and on-site construction experience permits 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 as well as FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard conditions and suggest amendments that transfer or re-assign high or unnecessary risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Prior to you sign any type of agreement, we will certainly ensure that it remains in your benefits which you understand your direct 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, effect and merit of any kind of claim.
Our composed claims contain plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Prior to we refer the matter to adjudication, we will certainly also establish the requirement for affidavits and expert records to ensure that claims have the ability to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are skilled representing our clients in formal and informal dispute procedures, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will certainly lead you through the legal process, and work in the direction of a resolution of your dispute in the quickest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We offer in-house planning and scheduling services. When delays do take place, we analyse the baseline schedule and progression updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We determine delays, concurrent delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and productivity rates utilizing made values or measured mile methods to figure out the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents existing delay and disruption information 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 strengths and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common expertise that the source 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 quantity evaluating abilities to help our clients devise comprehensive project development purchase and having strategies to significantly de-risk any kind of project. We normally manage the resolution of claims separately. This frees up the hands and permits the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to focus on their key goal of delivering the project. The benefits 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 own right, no time at all is shed in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Team and interacting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify appropriate partners that bring about teaming agreements and the setting up of successful joint ventures. We prepared winning proposals developing economic situations needed by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to obtain finance for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS helping select the appropriate kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We then help run the ECI phase (if needed), obtain planning and authority approvals and prepare the required Teaming Agreements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, seeking advice from contracts and vendor agreements. We also assist with contract reviews, including preparing tender credentials, negotiating last contracts and drafting any needed modifications. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a route of flaws, some deep underground where they are impossible to fix. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable issues, insurance, proprietor or professional self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted upon major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the diverse skills required to cover all elements of insurance advice and insurance claims management.
Our experience consists of policy interpretation and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and standing for clients before insurance firms.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert purchase and contract administration resources to professionals 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 style liability, efficiency below specification, insufficient jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication process.