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 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 that have most likely handled an issue on their projects in similar scenarios to what brought you to this website.
Our offering consists of Contract testimonial 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 engage Law Firm 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 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 in addition to FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and suggest amendments that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Before you sign any type of contract, we will ensure that it is in your best interests 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 in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to determine the cause, result and merit of any claim.
Our written claims contain plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the matter to adjudication, we will also establish the demand for affidavits and expert reports to make certain that claims are able to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are knowledgeable acting for our clients in formal and casual dispute process, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will certainly lead you via the legal process, and job in the direction of 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 happen, we analyse the standard schedule and progression updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We figure out delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance prices using earned values or measured mile methods to identify the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents present delay and disruption information 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 help our clients understand the toughness 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 surveying abilities to help our clients devise all-encompassing project development procurement and having strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We typically manage the resolution of claims independently. This liberates the hands and enables the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to focus on their primary purpose of delivering the project. The advantages of this technique 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 at all is lost in understanding the issues affecting 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 companions that cause teaming arrangements and the establishing of effective joint ventures. We prepared winning propositions developing economic cases required by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to obtain finance for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS helping choose the best type of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We then assist run the ECI phase (if called for), get planning and authority authorizations and prepare the required Teaming Agreements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, getting in touch with contracts and supplier contracts. We also assist with contract testimonials, consisting of preparing tender certifications, discussing final contracts and drafting any called for changes. 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 treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable issues, insurance, proprietor or professional self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted upon major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the varied skills required to cover all aspects of insurance recommendations and insurance claims management.
Our proficiency consists of policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and standing for clients before insurers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist procurement and contract administration sources to professionals throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for purchase of long-lead things, fabrication and modularization, transport and setup.
Identify counterclaims and apply liquidated damages. Insurance claims for style liability, efficiency below specification, incomplete jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication process.