Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, an expert Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides industrial management support to clients taken part 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 who have likely handled a matter on their projects in comparable conditions to what brought you to this website.
Our offering includes Contract review 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 engage Law Firm that requires 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 proficiency 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 along with FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard conditions and suggest changes that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Before you sign any type of agreement, we will certainly make certain that it remains in your benefits 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 figure out the cause, impact and merit of any kind of claim.
Our composed claims contain 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 figure out the demand for affidavits and expert records to ensure that claims are able to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are experienced representing our clients in formal and casual dispute proceedings, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will guide you via 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 provide in-house planning and scheduling services. When delays do occur, we analyse the standard schedule and progress updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We determine delays, concurrent delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and productivity prices using earned 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 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 strengths and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common knowledge that the root causes of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns have a tendency to be centred in incomplete project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and poor contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity evaluating abilities to assist our clients devise comprehensive project development purchase and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We commonly manage the resolution of claims separately. This maximizes the hands and permits the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to concentrate on their main goal of delivering the project. The advantages 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 is shed in understanding the issues affecting cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Team and connecting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify ideal partners that result in teaming agreements and the establishing of successful joint endeavors. We prepared winning propositions developing economic cases called for by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to obtain financing for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS helping pick the appropriate sort of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We then help run the ECI phase (if required), acquire planning and authority authorizations and prepare the required Teaming Agreements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, seeking advice from contracts and vendor contracts. We also assist with contract testimonials, including preparing tender certifications, bargaining final contracts and drafting any kind of called for amendments. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a route of flaws, some deep underground where they are impossible to correct. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable problems, insurance, proprietor or contractor 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 skills called for to cover all elements of insurance recommendations and insurance claims management.
Our experience includes policy interpretation and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and standing for clients in front of insurance firms.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert purchase and contract administration resources to professionals throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead products, fabrication and modularization, transport and installment.
Identify counterclaims and apply liquidated damages. Insurance claims for layout liability, performance listed below specification, incomplete works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication procedure.