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 support to clients taken part 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 an issue on their projects in comparable situations to what brought you to this website.
Our offering consists of Contract review 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 office 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 entering into the law.
We can assist you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering expertise and on-site construction experience permits 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 conformity as well as FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and suggest modifications that transfer or re-assign high or unnecessary risks.
A well-written contract minimises risks. Prior to you sign any kind of agreement, we will certainly ensure that it is in your benefits and that you understand your direct exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a comprehensive contract analysis identifying the vital terms in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to establish the cause, impact and merit of any type of claim.
Our composed claims consist of 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 figure out the demand for affidavits and expert records to make sure that claims have the ability to withstand any type of scrutiny. We are experienced acting for our clients in formal and informal dispute proceedings, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will certainly lead you through the legal process, and work towards 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 occur, 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 productivity rates making use of earned 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 help our clients understand the staminas and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common expertise that the source of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns have a tendency to be centred in incomplete project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and poor contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity checking capacities to help our clients devise all-inclusive project development purchase and having strategies to significantly de-risk any kind of project. We normally manage the resolution of claims independently. This maximizes the hands and enables the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to concentrate on their main objective 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 is lost in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Team and interacting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify ideal partners that lead to teaming contracts and the setting up of successful joint ventures. We prepared winning proposals developing economic situations needed 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 helping pick the right kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We then assist run the ECI phase (if called for), obtain planning and authority authorizations and prepare the needed Teaming Agreements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, seeking advice from contracts and distributor arrangements. We also assist with contract evaluations, including preparing tender qualifications, negotiating final contracts and drafting any kind of required modifications. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of issues, some deep underground where they are difficult to fix. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable defects, insurance, owner or specialist self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted upon major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the diverse abilities called for to cover all elements of insurance suggestions and insurance claims management.
Our experience includes policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and representing clients in front of insurance companies.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist procurement and contract administration sources to service providers during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead products, fabrication and modularization, transport and installation.
Identify counterclaims and apply sold off problems. Insurance claims for design liability, performance listed below specification, insufficient jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication procedure.