Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, an expert Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides industrial management support to clients participated 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 who have most likely handled an issue on their projects in similar circumstances 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 office that requires to be helped by a "group of experts" when you have access 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 proficiency and on-site construction experience allows us to interpret, analyse and provide contract suggestions 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 compliance as well as FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and suggest modifications that transfer or re-assign high or unnecessary risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Prior to you authorize any type of contract, we will ensure that it remains in your benefits which you understand your direct exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct an extensive contract analysis identifying the vital terms and conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to determine the cause, impact and merit of any kind of claim.
Our created 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 determine the requirement for affidavits and expert reports to guarantee that claims are able to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are knowledgeable substituting our clients in formal and informal dispute proceedings, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will certainly guide you via the legal process, and work in the direction of a resolution of your dispute in the quickest 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 standard schedule and development updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We identify delays, concurrent delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and productivity rates utilizing earned values or measured mile techniques to determine 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 assist our clients understand the strengths and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common expertise that the root causes of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns often tend to be centred in incomplete project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and inadequate contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount checking abilities to help our clients devise all-inclusive project development purchase and having strategies to significantly de-risk any kind of project. We generally manage the resolution of claims independently. This maximizes the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to focus on their key goal of delivering the project. The benefits of this approach 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 is lost in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Group and connecting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify suitable partners that result in teaming arrangements and the setting up of effective joint endeavors. We prepared winning propositions developing economic instances required by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to obtain financing for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS helping select the appropriate sort of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We after that help run the ECI phase (if needed), acquire planning and authority authorizations and prepare the required Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, seeking advice from contracts and provider contracts. We also assist with contract evaluations, consisting of preparing tender qualifications, discussing last contracts and drafting any type of needed amendments. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of issues, some deep underground where they are difficult to rectify. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable defects, insurance, proprietor or specialist self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted upon major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the varied abilities needed to cover all aspects of insurance advice 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 purchase and contract administration sources to service providers during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead products, fabrication and modularization, transport and installment.
Identify counterclaims and use liquidated problems. Insurance claims for layout liability, performance listed below specification, incomplete works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication procedure.