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 utilize dual-qualified engineers-lawyers with first-hand project experience who have most likely handled a matter on their projects in similar circumstances to what brought you to this website.
Our offering includes Contract testimonial 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 Firm that requires to be assisted by a "group of experts" when you have accessibility to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects prior to entering the law.
We can help you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering experience and on-site construction experience allows us to interpret, analyse and provide contract recommendations throughout various 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 changes 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 see to it 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 a comprehensive contract analysis identifying the crucial terms and conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to establish the cause, impact and merit of any type of claim.
Our created claims consist of 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 figure out the need for affidavits and expert reports to ensure that claims have the ability to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are experienced representing our clients in formal and informal dispute proceedings, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will certainly guide you through the legal process, and job towards 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 take place, we analyse the baseline schedule and progression updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We establish delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance prices making use of made values or measured mile methods to determine the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents present 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 toughness and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It prevails knowledge that the source of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns have a tendency to be centred in insufficient project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and inadequate contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount checking abilities to assist our clients devise comprehensive project development procurement and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We typically manage the resolution of claims individually. This frees up the hands and enables the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to focus on their main objective of delivering the project. The benefits 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 at all is shed in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Group and communicating them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify ideal partners that lead to teaming arrangements and the establishing of successful joint ventures. We prepared winning propositions developing economic instances required by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to acquire money for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting select the right sort of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We then assist run the ECI phase (if required), obtain planning and authority authorizations and prepare the called for Teaming Arrangements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, getting in touch with contracts and vendor contracts. We also assist with contract reviews, including preparing tender credentials, working out final contracts and drafting any kind of needed changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a route 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 defects, insurance, proprietor or professional self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted on significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the diverse skills called for to cover all aspects of insurance recommendations and insurance claims management.
Our expertise consists of policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and standing for clients in front of insurance firms.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert procurement and contract administration sources to professionals during 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, performance below specification, incomplete works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication process.