Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, an expert 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 a matter on their projects in comparable circumstances 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 involve 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 entering the law.
We can assist you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering experience and on-site construction experience enables us to interpret, analyse and provide contract suggestions 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 compliance as well as FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and suggest changes that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract minimises risks. Before you authorize any kind of agreement, we will certainly make certain that it is in your benefits 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 essential conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to identify the cause, result and merit of any claim.
Our created claims consist of plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the issue to adjudication, we will also identify the need for affidavits and expert reports to ensure that claims have the ability to withstand any scrutiny. We are experienced representing our clients in formal and casual dispute procedures, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will lead you with the legal process, and work in the direction of a resolution of your dispute in the shortest 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 progress updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We determine delays, concurrent delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and productivity prices making use of gained values or measured mile techniques to determine 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 knowledge that the source of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns have a tendency to be centred in insufficient project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and poor 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 type of project. We commonly manage the resolution of claims separately. This liberates the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to concentrate on their key objective of delivering the project. The benefits of this approach 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 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 appropriate partners that lead to teaming arrangements and the setting up of effective joint endeavors. We prepared winning propositions developing economic instances called for by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to get financing for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting select the right sort of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We after that help run the ECI phase (if required), acquire planning and authority approvals and prepare the needed Teaming Agreements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, getting in touch with contracts and provider contracts. We also assist with contract reviews, consisting of preparing tender qualifications, negotiating last contracts and drafting any called for changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of flaws, some deep underground where they are impossible to remedy. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable flaws, insurance, owner or specialist self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted on significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the diverse skills called for to cover all facets of insurance recommendations and insurance claims management.
Our expertise consists of policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and representing clients before insurance companies.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert procurement and contract administration sources to service providers throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for purchase of long-lead things, fabrication and modularization, transport and installation.
Identify counterclaims and use liquidated problems. Insurance claims for layout liability, performance listed below specification, incomplete jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication process.