Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, an expert 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 comparable conditions 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 needs to be helped by a "team of experts" when you have accessibility to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects prior to entering the law.
We can assist you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering proficiency and on-site construction experience permits 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 as well as FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and recommend modifications that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Before you authorize any arrangement, we will 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 an extensive contract analysis identifying the vital terms in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to determine the cause, result and merit of any type of claim.
Our created 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 certainly also determine the requirement for affidavits and expert reports to make certain that claims have the ability to withstand any scrutiny. We are knowledgeable substituting our clients in formal and casual dispute proceedings, and regularly short counsels and barristers. We will assist you with the legal process, and work in the direction of a resolution of your dispute in the shortest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We offer 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 figure out delays, concurrent delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance rates using made values or measured mile methods to determine 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 understanding that the source of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns often tend to be centred in insufficient project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and poor contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity checking capabilities to assist our clients devise all-inclusive project development purchase and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We usually manage the resolution of claims separately. This maximizes the hands and enables the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to concentrate on their key goal of delivering the project. The advantages 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 very own right, no time at all is lost in understanding the issues influencing cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Team and communicating them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify appropriate partners that cause teaming arrangements and the establishing of successful joint ventures. We prepared winning proposals developing economic cases required by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to get money for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting pick the right sort of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We after that help run the ECI phase (if called for), get planning and authority approvals and prepare the called for Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, speaking with contracts and supplier contracts. We also aid with contract reviews, consisting of preparing tender qualifications, bargaining final contracts and drafting any called for modifications. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a path of problems, 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, proprietor or service provider self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted upon significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the varied abilities required to cover all aspects of insurance suggestions and insurance claims management.
Our expertise consists of policy interpretation and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and representing clients before insurers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert procurement and contract administration sources to specialists during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead items, fabrication and modularization, transport and installation.
Identify counterclaims and use liquidated problems. 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.