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 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 who have most likely handled a matter on their projects in similar conditions 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 involve Law office that needs to be helped by a "group of experts" when you have accessibility to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects prior to coming into the law.
We can assist 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 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 conformity in addition to FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard conditions and suggest changes that transfer or re-assign high or unnecessary risks.
A well-written contract minimises risks. Prior to you authorize any kind of agreement, we will see to it that it is in your best interests and that you understand your direct exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a detailed contract analysis identifying the key conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to establish the cause, effect and merit of any type of claim.
Our composed claims contain plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Prior to we refer the issue to adjudication, we will also identify the need for affidavits and expert reports to make sure that claims have the ability to withstand any type of scrutiny. We are knowledgeable substituting our clients in formal and casual dispute process, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will certainly assist you via the legal process, and job in the direction of a resolution of your dispute in the shortest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We offer internal 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 establish delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and productivity rates utilizing gained values or measured mile techniques 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 help our clients understand the toughness and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It prevails expertise that the origin of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns tend to be centred in incomplete project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and inadequate contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity checking capacities to help our clients devise all-inclusive project development procurement and having strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We generally manage the resolution of claims independently. This frees up the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to focus on their key purpose of delivering the project. The benefits of this method 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 lost in understanding the issues influencing cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Group and connecting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify suitable partners that lead to teaming contracts and the establishing of successful joint ventures. We prepared winning propositions developing economic cases called for by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to acquire financing for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting choose the ideal kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We then help run the ECI phase (if needed), acquire planning and authority approvals and prepare the called for Teaming Arrangements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, consulting contracts and vendor contracts. We also aid with contract testimonials, consisting of preparing tender credentials, negotiating final contracts and drafting any needed changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a route of problems, some deep underground where they are difficult to correct. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable problems, insurance, owner or contractor self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted upon significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the diverse skills required to cover all facets of insurance recommendations and insurance claims management.
Our proficiency consists of policy analysis 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 service providers during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for purchase of long-lead things, fabrication and modularization, transport and installment.
Identify counterclaims and apply liquidated damages. Insurance claims for design liability, performance listed below specification, insufficient works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication process.