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 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 most likely handled an issue on their projects in similar situations 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 involve Law office that requires to be helped by a "group of experts" when you have access 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 experience and on-site construction experience allows us to interpret, analyse and provide contract suggestions 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 as well as FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and recommend changes that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Prior to you authorize any agreement, 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 a comprehensive contract analysis identifying the vital terms in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to identify the cause, effect and merit of any type of claim.
Our composed claims include 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 need for affidavits and expert records to ensure that claims have the ability to withstand any scrutiny. We are knowledgeable representing our clients in formal and casual dispute procedures, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will direct 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 internal planning and scheduling services. When delays do happen, we analyse the standard schedule and progress updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We establish delays, concurrent delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance 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 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 bad contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount checking capabilities to help our clients devise all-inclusive project development purchase and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any project. We commonly manage the resolution of claims independently. This maximizes the hands and permits the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to focus on their key objective of delivering the project. The benefits of this strategy is a positive cashflow from the start and lower overall project administration expenditure. Every one of our lawyers are construction experts in their very own right, no time at all is lost in understanding the issues influencing cost schedule or scope issues internally 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 establishing of successful joint endeavors. We prepared winning proposals developing economic situations called for by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to get money for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting pick the best kind 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 Arrangements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, consulting contracts and distributor agreements. We also assist with contract reviews, consisting of preparing tender credentials, negotiating final contracts and drafting any kind of needed amendments. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a route of defects, some deep underground where they are impossible to fix. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable defects, insurance, owner or contractor self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted upon significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the diverse skills needed to cover all elements of insurance guidance and insurance claims management.
Our expertise consists of policy interpretation and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and standing for clients before insurers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist purchase and contract administration sources to service providers throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for purchase of long-lead products, fabrication and modularization, transport and setup.
Identify counterclaims and apply liquidated damages. Insurance claims for design liability, efficiency listed below specification, insufficient works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication procedure.