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 across the Infrastructure, Building, Rail and Bus transportation, Telecommunications, Renewable Energy, Mining and Oil and Gas industries.
We employ dual-qualified engineers-lawyers with first-hand project experience that have most likely handled a matter on their projects in comparable circumstances to what brought you to this website.
Our offering contains 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 needs to be assisted by a "team of experts" when you have access to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects before coming into the law.
We can assist you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering expertise and on-site construction experience permits 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 compliance in addition to 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. Prior to you authorize any arrangement, we will certainly make sure that it remains in your benefits and that you understand your exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a detailed contract analysis identifying the crucial terms in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to identify the cause, effect and merit of any type of claim.
Our written claims consist of plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Prior to we refer the matter 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 type of scrutiny. We are skilled substituting our clients in formal and casual dispute procedures, and regularly short counsels and barristers. We will direct you with the legal process, and work towards a resolution of your dispute in the shortest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We provide internal planning and scheduling services. When delays do take place, 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 efficiency rates using made values or measured mile techniques to establish the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents present delay and disruption information 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 staminas and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It prevails 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 inadequate contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity surveying capacities to help our clients devise all-encompassing project development purchase and having strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We generally manage the resolution of claims individually. This liberates the hands and permits the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to concentrate on their main purpose of delivering the project. The advantages 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 is lost in understanding the issues influencing cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Team and connecting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify ideal partners that result in teaming arrangements and the establishing of effective joint ventures. We prepared winning propositions developing economic cases called for by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to get finance for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS helping select the best sort of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We then assist run the ECI phase (if required), get planning and authority approvals and prepare the required Teaming Arrangements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, getting in touch with contracts and vendor arrangements. We also assist with contract evaluations, consisting of preparing tender qualifications, bargaining last contracts and drafting any required amendments. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a path of defects, some deep underground where they are impossible to remedy. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable defects, insurance, owner or contractor self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted on significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the varied abilities needed to cover all facets of insurance advice and insurance claims management.
Our experience consists of policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and representing clients in front of insurance firms.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist purchase and contract administration sources to service providers throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead items, fabrication and modularization, transport and installment.
Identify counterclaims and use sold off problems. Insurance claims for style liability, performance listed below specification, insufficient jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication process.