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 participated in projects throughout 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 an issue on their projects in comparable scenarios to what brought you to this website.
Our offering includes 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 assisted by a "team of experts" when you have access 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 experience and on-site construction experience enables us to interpret, analyse and provide contract recommendations 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 in addition to FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard conditions and suggest changes that transfer or re-assign high or unnecessary risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Prior to you authorize any type of agreement, we will certainly ensure that it remains in your benefits which you understand your direct 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 determine the cause, impact and merit of any claim.
Our created claims contain plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the issue to adjudication, we will also identify the demand for affidavits and expert records to guarantee that claims have the ability to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are experienced acting for our clients in formal and casual dispute proceedings, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will direct you with the legal process, and job in the direction of a resolution of your dispute in the quickest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We provide 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 establish delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and efficiency rates making use of gained values or measured mile methods to figure out the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents present 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 help our clients understand the strengths and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common understanding that the root causes of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns tend 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-encompassing project development purchase and having strategies to significantly de-risk any kind of project. We normally manage the resolution of claims independently. This frees up the hands and enables the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to concentrate on their primary objective of delivering the project. The benefits 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 at all is lost in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Group and interacting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify suitable partners that lead to teaming arrangements and the setting up of effective joint endeavors. We prepared winning proposals developing economic situations called for by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to obtain financing for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS helping choose the ideal sort of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We then help run the ECI phase (if needed), acquire planning and authority authorizations and prepare the needed Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, getting in touch with contracts and vendor arrangements. We also aid with contract testimonials, including preparing tender certifications, negotiating final contracts and drafting any called for modifications. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a route of flaws, some deep underground where they are impossible to fix. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable flaws, insurance, proprietor or contractor self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted upon significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the varied skills needed to cover all aspects of insurance recommendations and insurance claims management.
Our experience consists of policy interpretation and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and representing clients before insurance firms.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert purchase and contract administration sources 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 apply liquidated damages. Insurance claims for style liability, efficiency listed below specification, insufficient works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication process.