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 support to clients participated in projects throughout the Infrastructure, Building, Rail and Bus transportation, Telecommunications, Renewable Energy, Mining and Oil and Gas industries.
We use dual-qualified engineers-lawyers with first-hand project experience who have most likely handled a matter on their projects in comparable situations to what brought you to this website.
Our offering contains Contract evaluation 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 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 coming into the law.
We can help you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering experience 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 compliance as well as 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 remains in your benefits which you understand your direct exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a comprehensive 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 claim.
Our created 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 identify the need for affidavits and expert reports to make certain that claims have the ability to withstand any scrutiny. We are knowledgeable substituting our clients in formal and casual dispute process, and regularly short counsels and barristers. We will lead you through the legal process, and work 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 progress updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We identify delays, concurrent delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and efficiency prices making use of earned values or measured mile techniques to identify the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents existing delay and disruption information in particularised and auditable layout.
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 staminas and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It prevails knowledge 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 abilities to help our clients devise comprehensive project development procurement and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any project. We typically manage the resolution of claims independently. This maximizes the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to focus on their primary goal of delivering the project. The benefits of this technique is a positive cashflow from the start and lower overall project administration expenditure. Every one of our lawyers are construction experts in their 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 appropriate companions that cause teaming arrangements and the setting up of successful joint endeavors. We prepared winning proposals developing economic situations required by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to acquire finance for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS helping choose the appropriate kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We then assist run the ECI phase (if called for), acquire planning and authority approvals and prepare the required Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, consulting contracts and vendor contracts. We also assist with contract evaluations, consisting of preparing tender credentials, discussing last contracts and drafting any needed changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a path of flaws, some deep underground where they are impossible to rectify. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable problems, insurance, proprietor or specialist self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted on significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the diverse abilities called for to cover all elements of insurance suggestions and insurance claims management.
Our expertise includes policy interpretation and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and standing for clients before insurance companies.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert procurement and contract administration resources to service providers during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead items, fabrication and modularization, transport and setup.
Identify counterclaims and apply liquidated problems. Insurance claims for style liability, efficiency listed below specification, insufficient works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication procedure.