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 testimonial 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 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 expertise and on-site construction experience enables us to interpret, analyse and provide contract suggestions 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 recommend changes that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Prior to you sign any type of agreement, we will certainly see to it 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 comprehensive contract analysis identifying the essential terms and conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to establish the cause, result 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 also determine the requirement for affidavits and expert reports to make certain that claims are able to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are knowledgeable representing our clients in formal and informal dispute process, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will lead 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 internal planning and scheduling services. When delays do happen, we analyse the standard schedule and progression updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We figure out delays, concurrent delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and efficiency rates utilizing earned values or measured mile methods to identify the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents present delay and disruption data 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 assist our clients understand the toughness and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common expertise that the origin of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns often tend to be centred in insufficient project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and bad contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity checking capabilities to assist our clients devise comprehensive project development purchase and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any project. We commonly manage the resolution of claims individually. This frees up the hands and enables the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to concentrate on their main objective of delivering the project. The benefits 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 lost in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Team and interacting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify suitable partners that cause teaming agreements and the establishing of effective joint endeavors. We prepared winning proposals developing economic situations called for by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to obtain finance for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting choose the ideal sort of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We then help run the ECI phase (if required), get planning and authority approvals and prepare the called for Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, speaking with contracts and provider contracts. We also help with contract reviews, consisting of preparing tender qualifications, discussing last contracts and drafting any type of called for changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a route of defects, 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, proprietor or service provider 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 diverse abilities called for to cover all aspects of insurance suggestions and insurance claims management.
Our experience includes policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and representing clients in front of insurers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert purchase and contract administration resources to specialists throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead products, fabrication and modularization, transport and installment.
Identify counterclaims and apply sold off problems. Insurance claims for style liability, efficiency listed below specification, incomplete jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication procedure.