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 assistance to clients engaged 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 who have most likely handled an issue on their projects in comparable circumstances to what brought you to this website.
Our offering includes 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 needs to be helped by a "group of experts" when you have accessibility to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects before coming 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 across 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 conformity as well as FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and conditions and recommend amendments that transfer or re-assign high or unnecessary risks.
A well-written contract minimises risks. Before you authorize any type of contract, we will ensure 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 crucial conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to identify the cause, impact and merit of any type of claim.
Our written claims include plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Prior to we refer the issue to adjudication, we will also identify the demand for affidavits and expert records to ensure that claims are able to withstand any type of scrutiny. We are experienced representing our clients in formal and informal dispute proceedings, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will certainly assist you with the legal process, and job in the direction of 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 occur, we analyse the baseline schedule and progression 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 making use of earned values or measured mile techniques to establish the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents existing delay and disruption data 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 help our clients understand the strengths and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It prevails 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 poor contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount surveying abilities to help 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 maximizes the hands and permits the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to concentrate on their main goal of delivering the project. The benefits of this technique 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 shed in understanding the issues influencing cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Group and communicating them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify ideal companions that result in teaming arrangements and the setting up of effective joint endeavors. We prepared winning propositions developing economic cases required by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to acquire finance for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted 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 required), get planning and authority authorizations and prepare the called for Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, seeking advice from contracts and vendor agreements. We also assist with contract reviews, including preparing tender certifications, negotiating final contracts and drafting any required modifications. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a route of problems, some deep underground where they are impossible to rectify. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable issues, insurance, proprietor or professional self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted upon major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the varied skills needed to cover all elements of insurance recommendations and insurance claims management.
Our proficiency consists of policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and standing for clients before insurance firms.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert purchase and contract administration sources to professionals throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead things, fabrication and modularization, transport and installment.
Identify counterclaims and apply sold off problems. Insurance claims for style liability, efficiency below specification, insufficient works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication process.