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 support to clients taken part 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 likely handled an issue 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 Firm that requires to be helped by a "group of experts" when you have access to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects before coming into the law.
We can assist you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering expertise and on-site construction experience allows 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 along with 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 sign any kind of contract, we will certainly ensure that it remains in your best interests and that you understand your exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a comprehensive contract analysis identifying the essential terms and conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to determine the cause, result and merit of any type of claim.
Our written claims include 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 demand for affidavits and expert records to make certain that claims have the ability to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are skilled representing our clients in formal and casual dispute procedures, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will guide you with the legal process, and work in the direction of a resolution of your dispute in the fastest 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 establish delays, concurrent delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and productivity prices using made 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 source of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns tend to be centred in incomplete project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and poor contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity surveying capacities to help our clients devise comprehensive project development purchase and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any kind of project. We usually manage the resolution of claims separately. This liberates the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to concentrate on their primary objective of delivering the project. The advantages of this technique 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 is shed in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Team and connecting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify ideal partners that lead to teaming arrangements and the establishing of successful joint ventures. We prepared winning proposals developing economic cases called for by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to obtain money 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 type of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We after that assist run the ECI phase (if required), acquire planning and authority authorizations and prepare the required Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, getting in touch with contracts and distributor contracts. We also aid with contract testimonials, consisting of preparing tender certifications, working out final contracts and drafting any kind of needed changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of problems, some deep underground where they are impossible to remedy. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable flaws, insurance, proprietor or service provider self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted on significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the diverse skills needed to cover all aspects of insurance guidance and insurance claims management.
Our expertise includes policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and representing clients in front of insurance providers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert procurement and contract administration sources to specialists during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead items, fabrication and modularization, transport and installment.
Identify counterclaims and apply sold off damages. Insurance claims for style liability, efficiency listed below specification, insufficient jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication process.