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 participated 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 a matter on their projects in comparable situations to what brought you to this website.
Our offering includes 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 engage Law Firm that requires to be helped by a "group of experts" when you have accessibility to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects before entering into the law.
We can help you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering proficiency and on-site construction experience permits us to interpret, analyse and provide contract referrals throughout 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 conformity in addition to FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard conditions and recommend amendments that transfer or re-assign high or unnecessary risks.
A well-written contract minimises risks. Before you sign any contract, we will certainly make sure that it is in your best interests which you understand your exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a thorough contract analysis identifying the vital conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to establish the cause, impact and merit of any claim.
Our written claims include plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the matter to adjudication, we will also establish the need for affidavits and expert reports to make certain that claims have the ability to withstand any scrutiny. We are experienced substituting our clients in formal and casual dispute proceedings, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will certainly assist you through the legal process, and work in the direction of 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 development updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We determine delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance rates using gained values or measured mile approaches to determine the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents present delay and disruption data 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 toughness and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It prevails understanding that the origin of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns often tend to be centred in incomplete project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and poor contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount surveying capacities to assist our clients devise comprehensive project development procurement and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any kind of project. We typically manage the resolution of claims individually. This frees up the hands and enables the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to focus on their key purpose of delivering the project. The benefits of this method 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 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 suitable partners that bring about teaming arrangements and the establishing of effective joint ventures. We prepared winning propositions developing economic situations called for by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to get finance for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting pick the ideal type of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We after that help run the ECI phase (if needed), acquire planning and authority approvals and prepare the called for Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, seeking advice from contracts and distributor agreements. We also aid with contract evaluations, consisting of preparing tender qualifications, bargaining final contracts and drafting any kind of required changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of flaws, some deep underground where they are impossible to remedy. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable problems, insurance, proprietor or service provider self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted on major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the varied abilities called for to cover all elements of insurance advice and insurance claims management.
Our expertise consists of policy analysis 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 expert purchase and contract administration sources to professionals during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead products, fabrication and modularization, transport and installment.
Identify counterclaims and use liquidated damages. Insurance claims for style liability, performance listed below specification, insufficient works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication procedure.