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 participated 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 that have most likely handled an issue on their projects in comparable situations to what brought you to this website.
Our offering contains Contract evaluation 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 requires to be helped by a "group of experts" when you have accessibility to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects prior to coming into the law.
We can assist you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering experience and on-site construction experience permits us to interpret, analyse and provide contract recommendations throughout 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 in addition to FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and suggest modifications that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract minimises risks. Prior to you sign any kind of agreement, 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 an extensive contract analysis identifying the crucial conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to determine the cause, effect and merit of any kind of 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 certainly also establish 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 casual dispute procedures, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will certainly guide 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 happen, we analyse the baseline schedule and development updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We figure out delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and efficiency rates using gained values or measured mile approaches to determine the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents existing delay and disruption data in particularised and auditable style.
We also prepare acceleration claims, evaluate merit, quantum and entitlement to an EoT claim and provide Third Party Independent Reports to assist our clients understand the toughness 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 often tend to be centred in insufficient project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and bad 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 separately. This maximizes the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to focus on their main purpose of delivering the project. The advantages 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 at all is lost in understanding the issues influencing cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Group and interacting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify ideal companions that bring about teaming arrangements and the establishing of effective joint endeavors. We prepared winning propositions developing economic instances required by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to obtain finance for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting select the right kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We after that help run the ECI phase (if required), obtain planning and authority authorizations and prepare the required Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, getting in touch with contracts and distributor agreements. We also assist with contract evaluations, including preparing tender qualifications, negotiating final contracts and drafting any type of required amendments. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of problems, some deep underground where they are impossible to correct. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable defects, insurance, owner or professional self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted on major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the diverse skills needed to cover all aspects of insurance guidance and insurance claims management.
Our proficiency includes policy interpretation 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 service providers during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for purchase of long-lead items, fabrication and modularization, transport and installation.
Identify counterclaims and use sold off damages. 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.