Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, a specialist Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides commercial management support to clients participated in projects
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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 scenarios 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 involve Law Firm that requires to be assisted by a "group of experts" when you have accessibility to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects before coming into the law.
We can help you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering expertise and on-site construction experience allows us to interpret, analyse and provide contract suggestions 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 along with FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and suggest amendments that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract minimises risks. Prior to you sign any type of agreement, we will certainly ensure that it remains in your best interests and that you understand your direct exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a comprehensive contract analysis identifying the essential conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to establish the cause, result and merit of any claim.
Our written claims contain plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Prior to we refer the matter to adjudication, we will also figure out the need for affidavits and expert reports to make certain that claims have the ability to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are knowledgeable representing our clients in formal and casual dispute proceedings, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will certainly guide you via 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 provide internal planning and scheduling services. When delays do occur, we analyse the standard 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 efficiency prices using gained values or measured mile approaches to establish the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents existing 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 staminas and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common understanding that the root causes of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns often tend to be centred in incomplete 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 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 Groups to concentrate on their main purpose of delivering the project. The advantages of this method 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 affecting cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Group and communicating them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify appropriate companions that bring about teaming arrangements and the setting up of successful joint endeavors. We prepared winning proposals developing economic situations needed by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to obtain financing for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting select the right type of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We then help run the ECI phase (if called for), get planning and authority approvals and prepare the needed Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, getting in touch with contracts and supplier arrangements. We also aid with contract reviews, including preparing tender credentials, discussing final contracts and drafting any required changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of problems, some deep underground where they are impossible to fix. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable flaws, insurance, proprietor 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 varied abilities required to cover all elements of insurance advice 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 in front of insurance companies.
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 purchase of long-lead items, fabrication and modularization, transport and setup.
Identify counterclaims and apply liquidated damages. Insurance claims for design liability, performance below specification, incomplete works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication procedure.
