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 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 an issue on their projects in comparable circumstances 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 involve Law office that needs to be assisted 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 proficiency and on-site construction experience enables us to interpret, analyse and provide contract recommendations 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 compliance in addition to FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard conditions and suggest amendments that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract minimises risks. Before you authorize any agreement, we will certainly ensure that it is 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 crucial terms and 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 composed 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 figure out the demand for affidavits and expert records to make certain that claims are able to withstand any type of scrutiny. We are experienced substituting our clients in formal and casual dispute proceedings, and regularly short counsels and barristers. We will certainly guide you via the legal process, and job in the direction of a resolution of your dispute in the quickest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We provide in-house planning and scheduling services. When delays do happen, we analyse the baseline schedule and development 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 using earned values or measured mile approaches 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 understanding that the origin of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns tend to be centred in insufficient project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and bad contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount surveying capacities to help our clients devise comprehensive project development procurement and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We commonly manage the resolution of claims individually. This frees up the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to concentrate on their main 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 internally with the Project Team and connecting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify appropriate partners that cause teaming arrangements and the establishing of successful joint endeavors. We prepared winning proposals developing economic situations called for by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to get finance for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting pick the ideal sort of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We then help run the ECI phase (if needed), get planning and authority approvals and prepare the needed Teaming Agreements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, seeking advice from contracts and supplier arrangements. We also assist with contract testimonials, including preparing tender certifications, bargaining final contracts and drafting any required changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a path of problems, some deep underground where they are impossible to rectify. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable defects, insurance, owner or contractor self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted upon significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the varied abilities called for to cover all elements of insurance recommendations and insurance claims management.
Our experience consists of policy interpretation and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and representing clients in front of insurance companies.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist procurement and contract administration sources to professionals during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for purchase of long-lead items, fabrication and modularization, transport and installation.
Identify counterclaims and use sold off damages. Insurance claims for style liability, efficiency listed below specification, incomplete works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication process.