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 engaged 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 most likely handled an issue on their projects in comparable 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 engage Law Firm that needs to be helped by a "group of experts" when you have access to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects before entering into the law.
We can assist you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering experience and on-site construction experience enables 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 compliance in addition to FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and recommend modifications that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract minimises risks. Before you authorize any type of contract, we will certainly make sure that it remains in your best interests which you understand your direct exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct an extensive contract analysis identifying the crucial conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to determine the cause, impact 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 matter to adjudication, we will also identify the requirement for affidavits and expert reports to make certain that claims have the ability to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are experienced substituting our clients in formal and informal dispute proceedings, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will certainly lead you via the legal process, and work towards 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 occur, we analyse the baseline schedule and development 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 rates using gained values or measured mile methods to establish 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 assist our clients understand the strengths and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It prevails expertise that the origin of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns have a tendency 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 capabilities to assist our clients devise comprehensive project development procurement and having strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We usually manage the resolution of claims individually. This liberates the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to concentrate on their key purpose of delivering the project. The benefits of this approach is a positive cashflow from the start and lower overall project administration expenditure. Every one of our lawyers are construction experts in their own right, no time at all is shed in understanding the issues influencing cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Group and communicating them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify appropriate companions that cause teaming contracts and the establishing of successful joint ventures. We prepared winning propositions developing economic cases needed 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 helping pick the best type of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We then assist run the ECI phase (if required), get planning and authority approvals and prepare the needed Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, speaking with contracts and vendor agreements. We also help with contract reviews, consisting of preparing tender certifications, negotiating final contracts and drafting any type of needed modifications. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of problems, some deep underground where they are difficult to fix. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable issues, insurance, owner or professional self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted on major 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 proficiency consists of policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and representing clients in front of insurance firms.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist purchase and contract administration sources to service providers during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead items, fabrication and modularization, transport and installment.
Identify counterclaims and use sold off problems. Insurance claims for layout liability, efficiency below specification, incomplete jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication procedure.