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 engaged 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 that have most likely handled an issue on their projects in similar situations to what brought you to this website.
Our offering contains Contract testimonial 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 requires to be assisted by a "team 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 expertise 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 in addition to FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard conditions and recommend changes that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Prior to you sign any kind of contract, we will certainly ensure that it is in your best interests and that you understand your exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a detailed contract analysis identifying the vital conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to identify the cause, impact and merit of any kind of claim.
Our written claims contain plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the issue to adjudication, we will certainly also identify the requirement for affidavits and expert reports to guarantee that claims are able to withstand any type of scrutiny. We are knowledgeable representing our clients in formal and informal dispute proceedings, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will direct you through the legal process, and job towards a resolution of your dispute in the fastest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We provide internal planning and scheduling services. When delays do occur, we analyse the standard schedule and development updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We establish delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance prices utilizing earned values or measured mile methods to establish 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 assist our clients understand the toughness and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common understanding that the source of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns have a tendency to be centred in incomplete project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and bad contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity checking abilities to help our clients devise comprehensive project development procurement and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any kind of project. We usually manage the resolution of claims separately. This liberates the hands and permits the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to focus on their primary goal 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 very own right, no time at all is shed in understanding the issues affecting 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 ideal partners that cause teaming contracts and the setting up of successful joint endeavors. We prepared winning propositions developing economic situations required by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to acquire financing for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS helping choose the ideal type of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We then help run the ECI phase (if required), acquire planning and authority authorizations and prepare the called for Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, speaking with contracts and distributor arrangements. We also aid with contract evaluations, consisting of preparing tender credentials, negotiating last contracts and drafting any required amendments. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a path of problems, some deep underground where they are impossible to fix. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable flaws, insurance, proprietor or contractor self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted upon significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the diverse abilities needed to cover all facets of insurance advice and insurance claims management.
Our proficiency includes policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action 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 service providers 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 damages. Insurance claims for design liability, efficiency below specification, insufficient jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication procedure.