Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, a specialist Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides industrial management assistance to clients engaged in projects across the Infrastructure, Building, Rail and Bus transportation, Telecommunications, Renewable Energy, Mining and Oil and Gas industries.
We utilize dual-qualified engineers-lawyers with first-hand project experience who have likely handled a matter on their projects in similar scenarios to what brought you to this website.
Our offering contains Contract testimonial 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 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 prior to coming into the law.
We can help you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering expertise and on-site construction experience allows us to interpret, analyse and provide contract suggestions 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 compliance along with FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and suggest changes that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract minimises risks. Before you sign any type of agreement, we will see to it that it remains in your best interests which you understand your exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a complete contract analysis identifying the key terms and conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to figure out the cause, impact and merit of any claim.
Our composed 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 establish the requirement for affidavits and expert reports to guarantee that claims have the ability to withstand any type of scrutiny. We are knowledgeable substituting our clients in formal and casual dispute procedures, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will certainly lead you with the legal process, and work towards a resolution of your dispute in the shortest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We provide internal planning and scheduling services. When delays do happen, we analyse the baseline schedule and development updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We determine delays, concurrent delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance rates using made values or measured mile techniques to establish 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 strengths and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common knowledge 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 inadequate contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount evaluating capacities to assist our clients devise all-inclusive project development purchase and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We normally manage the resolution of claims individually. This liberates the hands and permits the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to concentrate on their primary 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 own right, no time is shed in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Group and connecting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify appropriate partners that lead to teaming arrangements and the establishing of effective joint ventures. We prepared winning propositions developing economic situations needed by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to acquire 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 ideal kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We then help run the ECI phase (if required), acquire 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 arrangements. We also help with contract evaluations, including preparing tender credentials, working out final contracts and drafting any kind of called for modifications. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of defects, some deep underground where they are impossible to correct. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable issues, insurance, proprietor or contractor self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted on major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the varied skills called for to cover all aspects of insurance guidance and insurance claims management.
Our expertise includes policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and representing clients in front of insurance companies.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist purchase and contract administration resources to specialists 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 problems. Insurance claims for style liability, performance listed below specification, incomplete jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication process.