Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, an expert Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides commercial 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 employ dual-qualified engineers-lawyers with first-hand project experience who have most likely handled an issue on their projects in comparable conditions to what brought you to this website.
Our offering includes 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 engage Law office that requires to be assisted by a "group of experts" when you have access to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects prior to entering 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 referrals 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 conformity 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 reduces risks. Prior to you sign any agreement, we will certainly make sure 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 an extensive contract analysis identifying the vital terms in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to identify the cause, result and merit of any claim.
Our composed 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 certainly also identify the need for affidavits and expert records to guarantee that claims have the ability to withstand any scrutiny. We are knowledgeable acting for our clients in formal and casual dispute proceedings, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will certainly guide you with the legal process, and work towards 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 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 performance prices utilizing gained values or measured mile methods to figure out the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents present delay and disruption data 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 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 insufficient project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and inadequate contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity evaluating capabilities to assist our clients devise all-encompassing project development purchase and having strategies to significantly de-risk any project. We typically manage the resolution of claims independently. This frees up the hands and enables 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. All of our lawyers are construction experts in their own right, no time at all is lost 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 ideal companions that result in teaming arrangements and the setting up of effective joint endeavors. We prepared winning proposals developing economic situations required 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 helping choose the right type 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, speaking with contracts and vendor contracts. We also assist with contract evaluations, including preparing tender credentials, negotiating last contracts and drafting any required changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a route of problems, some deep underground where they are difficult to correct. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable issues, insurance, owner or service provider self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted upon major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the varied abilities required to cover all elements of insurance guidance and insurance claims management.
Our experience consists of policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and standing for clients before insurers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert procurement and contract administration sources to professionals during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for purchase of long-lead products, fabrication and modularization, transport and setup.
Identify counterclaims and apply sold off problems. Insurance claims for design liability, performance below specification, insufficient works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication procedure.