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 engaged in projects throughout 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 likely handled a matter on their projects in comparable circumstances to what brought you to this website.
Our offering consists of 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 involve a Law office that needs to be assisted 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 permits us to interpret, analyse and provide contract recommendations 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 conformity 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 unneeded risks.
A well-written contract minimises risks. Before you authorize any kind of arrangement, we will make sure that it is in your best interests and that you understand your direct exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct an extensive contract analysis identifying the key terms and conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to determine the cause, impact and merit of any type of claim.
Our written claims consist of plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Prior to referring the issue to adjudication, we will also figure out the requirement for affidavits and expert reports to guarantee that claims are able to withstand any type of scrutiny. We are knowledgeable representing our clients in formal and casual dispute proceedings, and regularly short counsels and barristers. We will certainly lead you via the legal process, and job in the direction of a resolution of your dispute in the fastest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We offer in-house 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 identify delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and efficiency prices making use of gained values or measured mile approaches to figure out the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents existing delay and disruption data in particularised and auditable layout.
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 origin of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns have a tendency to be centred in insufficient project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and inadequate contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount checking capacities to help our clients devise all-encompassing project development procurement and having strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We commonly manage the resolution of claims individually. This liberates the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to concentrate on their key goal 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 lost in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Team and communicating them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify suitable partners that result in teaming agreements and the setting up of effective joint endeavors. We prepared winning proposals developing economic instances needed by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to obtain money for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting choose the right kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We after that help run the ECI phase (if called for), acquire planning and authority approvals and prepare the needed Teaming Arrangements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, seeking advice from contracts and distributor contracts. We also assist with contract evaluations, consisting of preparing tender certifications, negotiating final contracts and drafting any type of called for changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of flaws, some deep underground where they are difficult to rectify. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable issues, insurance, owner or service provider self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted on significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the varied skills required to cover all facets of insurance recommendations and insurance claims management.
Our proficiency consists of policy interpretation and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and representing clients in front of insurers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist procurement and contract administration resources to professionals throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead things, fabrication and modularization, transport and installation.
Identify counterclaims and use sold off damages. Insurance claims for layout liability, efficiency listed below specification, incomplete jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication process.