Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, a specialist Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides commercial management support to clients participated in projects throughout 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 who have likely handled an issue on their projects in comparable circumstances to what brought you to this website.
Our offering includes 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 assisted by a "team of experts" when you have accessibility 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 enables us to interpret, analyse and provide contract recommendations 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 as well as FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard conditions and recommend amendments that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Before you authorize any kind of agreement, we will certainly see to it that it remains in your best interests and that you understand your direct exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a comprehensive contract analysis identifying the essential terms in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to figure out the cause, result and merit of any kind of claim.
Our composed claims consist of plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the issue to adjudication, we will also determine the need for affidavits and expert records to guarantee that claims have the ability to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are skilled acting for our clients in formal and casual dispute process, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will certainly assist 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 internal planning and scheduling services. When delays do take place, we analyse the standard schedule and progress updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We determine delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance prices making use of earned values or measured mile methods to identify 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 strengths and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common understanding that the source of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns often 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 checking capacities to assist our clients devise comprehensive project development procurement and having strategies to significantly de-risk any project. We commonly manage the resolution of claims separately. This maximizes the hands and enables the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to concentrate on their key purpose of delivering the project. The advantages of this strategy 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 at all is shed in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Group and connecting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify appropriate partners that lead to teaming arrangements and the setting up of effective joint endeavors. We prepared winning propositions developing economic cases needed by Financial Institutions that allowed 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 right kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We then help run the ECI phase (if needed), obtain planning and authority approvals and prepare the required Teaming Arrangements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, speaking with contracts and supplier contracts. We also assist with contract evaluations, including preparing tender qualifications, working out final contracts and drafting any kind of required modifications. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a path of issues, some deep underground where they are difficult to fix. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable defects, insurance, proprietor or specialist self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted on major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the varied skills needed to cover all facets of insurance guidance and insurance claims management.
Our expertise includes policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and standing for clients before insurers.
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 procurement of long-lead products, fabrication and modularization, transport and installation.
Identify counterclaims and use liquidated problems. Insurance claims for style liability, efficiency below specification, incomplete works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication procedure.