Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, an expert Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides business management support to clients taken part in projects across 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 likely handled an issue on their projects in comparable situations to what brought you to this website.
Our offering consists of Contract review 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 access 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 experience 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 conformity 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 unneeded risks.
A well-written contract minimises risks. Before you authorize any type of agreement, we will certainly make certain that it remains in your best interests which 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, effect and merit of any claim.
Our composed claims contain plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the matter to adjudication, we will certainly also figure out the need for affidavits and expert reports to make sure that claims have the ability to withstand any scrutiny. We are experienced substituting our clients in formal and informal dispute process, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will direct 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 occur, we analyse the standard schedule and development updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We determine delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and efficiency prices using made values or measured mile techniques to establish the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents existing delay and disruption data 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 assist our clients understand the staminas and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common expertise that the source of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns tend to be centred in insufficient project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and poor contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount checking capabilities to help our clients devise all-encompassing project development procurement and having strategies to significantly de-risk any project. We commonly manage the resolution of claims individually. This frees up the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to concentrate on their main goal of delivering the project. The advantages of this strategy is a positive cashflow from the start and lower overall project administration expenditure. Every one of our lawyers are construction experts in their very own right, no time is shed in understanding the issues influencing 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 appropriate partners that cause teaming arrangements and the setting up of effective joint endeavors. We prepared winning propositions developing economic instances called for by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to obtain finance for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting choose the best sort of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We after that assist run the ECI phase (if needed), acquire planning and authority approvals and prepare the needed Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, consulting contracts and distributor contracts. We also aid with contract evaluations, consisting of preparing tender certifications, negotiating last contracts and drafting any type of needed amendments. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a path of problems, some deep underground where they are impossible to remedy. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable issues, insurance, owner or contractor 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 varied abilities required to cover all elements of insurance suggestions and insurance claims management.
Our proficiency includes policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and representing clients before insurance companies.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert procurement and contract administration resources to specialists throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for purchase of long-lead items, fabrication and modularization, transport and installation.
Identify counterclaims and apply sold off problems. Insurance claims for style liability, efficiency below specification, insufficient jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication procedure.