Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, a specialist Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides commercial management support to clients participated in projects throughout 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 that have most likely handled an issue on their projects in similar circumstances 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 requires 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 help you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering expertise and on-site construction experience enables us to interpret, analyse and provide contract referrals 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 compliance in addition to FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and conditions and suggest amendments that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Before you authorize any contract, we will certainly make sure that it remains in your best interests and that you understand your exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a comprehensive contract analysis identifying the crucial terms 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 issue to adjudication, we will also determine the requirement for affidavits and expert reports to guarantee that claims are able to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are experienced representing our clients in formal and casual dispute procedures, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will lead you with the legal process, and job towards a resolution of your dispute in the quickest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We offer in-house 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 figure out delays, concurrent delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and productivity rates making use of made values or measured mile methods to determine the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents existing delay and disruption information 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 origin of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns have a tendency to be centred in incomplete project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and inadequate contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity checking abilities to help our clients devise all-inclusive project development purchase and having strategies to significantly de-risk any project. We normally manage the resolution of claims separately. This liberates the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to focus on their key objective of delivering the project. The benefits of this technique 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 is lost in understanding the issues affecting cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Team and communicating them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify appropriate companions that bring about teaming contracts and the setting up of successful joint ventures. We prepared winning propositions developing economic situations required by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to acquire financing 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 help run the ECI phase (if needed), acquire planning and authority approvals and prepare the called for Teaming Agreements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, seeking advice from contracts and provider arrangements. We also aid with contract reviews, including preparing tender qualifications, negotiating final contracts and drafting any kind of called for amendments. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a route of issues, some deep underground where they are impossible to correct. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable defects, insurance, proprietor or specialist 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 skills needed to cover all elements of insurance recommendations 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 in front of insurance providers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert purchase 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 setup.
Identify counterclaims and use liquidated problems. Insurance claims for layout liability, efficiency below specification, insufficient jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication process.