Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, a specialist Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides business management support to clients taken part in projects throughout the Infrastructure, Building, Rail and Bus transportation, Telecommunications, Renewable Energy, Mining and Oil and Gas industries.
We use dual-qualified engineers-lawyers with first-hand project experience who have likely handled a matter on their projects in similar circumstances to what brought you to this website.
Our offering consists of Contract review 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 involve Law office that needs to be assisted by a "team of experts" when you have accessibility to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects before entering the law.
We can assist you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering proficiency and on-site construction experience enables 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 compliance as well as FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard conditions and recommend modifications that transfer or re-assign high or unnecessary risks.
A well-written contract minimises risks. Prior to you authorize any kind of agreement, we will ensure that it remains in your best interests 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 key terms and conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to establish the cause, effect and merit of any type of claim.
Our composed claims contain plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the issue to adjudication, we will certainly also determine the demand for affidavits and expert reports to ensure that claims are able to withstand any type of scrutiny. We are experienced substituting our clients in formal and casual dispute process, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will direct you with the legal process, and work in the direction of a resolution of your dispute in the shortest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We provide in-house planning and scheduling services. When delays do occur, we analyse the standard schedule and progression updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We identify delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance prices utilizing earned values or measured mile techniques to figure out 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 strengths and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It prevails expertise that the root causes of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns have a tendency to be centred in insufficient project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and poor contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity evaluating capabilities to help our clients devise comprehensive project development purchase and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any project. We generally manage the resolution of claims separately. This liberates the hands and enables the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to focus on their main purpose of delivering the project. The benefits 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 very own right, no time is lost 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 help developers identify ideal companions that lead to teaming contracts and the establishing of successful joint endeavors. We prepared winning propositions developing economic situations required by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to obtain money for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS helping select the right sort of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We then assist run the ECI phase (if called for), get 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 supplier agreements. We also aid with contract reviews, consisting of preparing tender qualifications, negotiating last contracts and drafting any kind of needed changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a path of flaws, some deep underground where they are impossible to rectify. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable problems, insurance, owner or contractor self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted upon major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the diverse abilities called for to cover all elements of insurance guidance and insurance claims management.
Our proficiency includes policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and representing clients before insurance providers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert procurement and contract administration sources to professionals throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for purchase of long-lead things, fabrication and modularization, transport and installation.
Identify counterclaims and use sold off damages. Insurance claims for layout liability, performance listed below specification, incomplete works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication procedure.