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 assistance to clients engaged in projects across 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 that have most likely handled an issue on their projects in comparable scenarios to what brought you to this website.
Our offering consists of Contract evaluation 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 requires to be assisted by a "group of experts" when you have access to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects prior to coming into the law.
We can assist you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering proficiency and on-site construction experience allows us to interpret, analyse and provide contract recommendations 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 along with FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and conditions and recommend changes that transfer or re-assign high or unnecessary risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Prior to you authorize any type of agreement, we will ensure 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 key conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to figure out the cause, effect and merit of any claim.
Our composed claims consist of plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Prior to we refer the issue to adjudication, we will also establish the requirement for affidavits and expert records to make sure that claims have the ability to withstand any scrutiny. We are skilled substituting our clients in formal and informal dispute proceedings, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will guide you via the legal process, and job towards a resolution of your dispute in the quickest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We provide in-house planning and scheduling services. When delays do occur, we analyse the baseline schedule and progression 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 making use of gained values or measured mile methods to figure out the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents present delay and disruption information 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 strengths 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 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 checking capabilities to assist our clients devise all-inclusive project development purchase and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We typically manage the resolution of claims separately. This frees up the hands and permits the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to concentrate on their primary purpose 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 at all is shed in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Team and interacting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify suitable companions that lead to teaming agreements and the setting up of effective joint ventures. We prepared winning proposals developing economic cases needed by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to get finance for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS helping pick the appropriate kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We after that assist run the ECI phase (if needed), acquire planning and authority approvals and prepare the needed Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, seeking advice from contracts and distributor contracts. We also help with contract evaluations, including preparing tender qualifications, bargaining last contracts and drafting any kind of needed amendments. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a path of issues, some deep underground where they are difficult to correct. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable problems, insurance, owner or specialist self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted upon major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the varied abilities called for to cover all aspects of insurance recommendations and insurance claims management.
Our expertise consists of policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and standing for clients in front of insurance providers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist 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 installation.
Identify counterclaims and apply liquidated problems. Insurance claims for design liability, performance listed below specification, insufficient works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication process.