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 taken part in projects across 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 who have likely handled a matter on their projects in comparable scenarios 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 engage Law office that needs to be helped by a "group of experts" when you have accessibility to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects before entering the law.
We can help 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 conformity along with FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and suggest 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 certainly see to it that it remains in your benefits which you understand your exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct an extensive contract analysis identifying the essential terms and conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to identify the cause, impact and merit of any claim.
Our composed claims include plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the issue to adjudication, we will also figure out the need for affidavits and expert records to make certain that claims have the ability to withstand any scrutiny. We are knowledgeable representing our clients in formal and casual dispute process, and regularly short counsels and barristers. We will certainly assist you via the legal process, and job in the direction of a resolution of your dispute in the shortest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We offer in-house planning and scheduling services. When delays do occur, we analyse the baseline schedule and development updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We establish delays, concurrent delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and productivity prices using earned values or measured mile techniques to figure out the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents present 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 toughness 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 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 amount evaluating capabilities to assist our clients devise all-inclusive project development procurement and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any project. We usually manage the resolution of claims individually. This liberates the hands and permits the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to focus on their primary objective 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 very own right, no time is shed in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Team and connecting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify ideal companions that result in teaming contracts and the setting up of successful joint endeavors. We prepared winning propositions developing economic situations called for by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to get finance for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting pick the right type of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We after that help run the ECI phase (if called for), acquire planning and authority approvals and prepare the required Teaming Agreements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, getting in touch with contracts and supplier arrangements. We also assist with contract reviews, consisting of preparing tender qualifications, bargaining last contracts and drafting any type of required modifications. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a path of flaws, some deep underground where they are difficult to correct. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable flaws, insurance, owner or service provider self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted on major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the varied skills needed to cover all facets of insurance guidance and insurance claims management.
Our expertise includes policy interpretation and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity 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 resources to specialists throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead things, fabrication and modularization, transport and setup.
Identify counterclaims and use liquidated problems. Insurance claims for layout liability, efficiency below specification, incomplete jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication procedure.