Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, a specialist Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides business management assistance to clients participated in projects across 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 that have likely handled a matter on their projects in comparable scenarios to what brought you to this website.
Our offering consists of Contract testimonial 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 office that needs 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 assist you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering proficiency and on-site construction experience permits us to interpret, analyse and provide contract suggestions throughout 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 minimises risks. Before you sign any kind of contract, we will certainly make certain 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 an extensive contract analysis identifying the vital terms and conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to identify the cause, impact and merit of any type of claim.
Our written claims consist of 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 figure out the need for affidavits and expert records to make certain that claims are able to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are skilled acting for our clients in formal and informal dispute procedures, and regularly short counsels and barristers. We will direct you with the legal process, and job in the direction of a resolution of your dispute in the shortest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We offer internal planning and scheduling services. When delays do take place, we analyse the baseline schedule and development updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We establish delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and productivity prices utilizing earned values or measured mile methods 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 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 tend to be centred in insufficient project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and poor contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount evaluating capabilities to assist our clients devise all-inclusive project development procurement and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any kind of project. We generally manage the resolution of claims separately. This maximizes the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to concentrate on their primary objective of delivering the project. The advantages 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 very own right, no time is shed in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Group and interacting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify appropriate partners that bring about teaming agreements and the setting up of successful joint endeavors. We prepared winning propositions developing economic situations called for by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to obtain finance for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting choose the best kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We after that help run the ECI phase (if needed), obtain planning and authority authorizations and prepare the called for Teaming Agreements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, speaking with contracts and vendor contracts. We also aid with contract testimonials, including preparing tender qualifications, working out last contracts and drafting any type of required modifications. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a path of defects, some deep underground where they are impossible to fix. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable problems, insurance, owner or contractor self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted on major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the diverse skills called for to cover all elements of insurance suggestions and insurance claims management.
Our proficiency consists of policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and representing clients before insurance firms.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert procurement and contract administration resources to specialists during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead things, fabrication and modularization, transport and setup.
Identify counterclaims and use liquidated problems. Insurance claims for design liability, performance listed below specification, incomplete works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication process.