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 that have most likely handled a matter on their projects in similar conditions to what brought you to this website.
Our offering contains 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 involve Law Firm that needs to be helped by a "team of experts" when you have accessibility 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 expertise and on-site construction experience allows 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 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 reduces risks. Before you sign any type of arrangement, we will certainly ensure that it remains in your best interests which you understand your direct exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a thorough contract analysis identifying the essential terms and conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to determine the cause, impact and merit of any claim.
Our composed claims consist of plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the matter to adjudication, we will certainly also figure out the demand for affidavits and expert records to make sure that claims are able to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are experienced representing our clients in formal and informal dispute process, and regularly short counsels and barristers. We will guide you through the legal process, and work towards a resolution of your dispute in the fastest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We provide internal planning and scheduling services. When delays do take place, we analyse the baseline schedule and progress 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 establish the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents present delay and disruption information 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 assist our clients understand the toughness 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 incomplete project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and bad contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity checking capabilities to help our clients devise all-inclusive project development procurement and having strategies to significantly de-risk any kind of project. We usually manage the resolution of claims separately. This maximizes 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. All of our lawyers are construction experts in their own right, no time at all is shed in understanding the issues affecting cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Group and interacting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify suitable companions that bring about teaming contracts and the establishing of successful joint ventures. We prepared winning propositions developing economic cases required by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to acquire finance for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting select the best kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We after that assist run the ECI phase (if called for), get planning and authority approvals and prepare the required Teaming Arrangements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, getting in touch with contracts and vendor agreements. We also aid with contract evaluations, including preparing tender qualifications, negotiating last contracts and drafting any needed changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of defects, some deep underground where they are difficult to correct. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable problems, insurance, owner or service provider self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted upon major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the varied abilities required to cover all facets of insurance suggestions and insurance claims management.
Our expertise consists of policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and standing for clients in front of insurers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert purchase and contract administration resources to service providers 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 liquidated damages. Insurance claims for design liability, performance below specification, incomplete works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication process.