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 assistance to clients engaged in projects throughout 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 likely handled an issue on their projects in comparable circumstances to what brought you to this website.
Our offering includes 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 a Law office that needs to be helped by a "team of experts" when you have accessibility to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects prior to coming into 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 suggestions across 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 in addition to FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and conditions and suggest modifications that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract minimises risks. Before you authorize any type of agreement, we will certainly ensure 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 thorough 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 type of claim.
Our written claims include plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the issue to adjudication, we will certainly also determine the requirement for affidavits and expert records to make sure that claims are able to withstand any scrutiny. We are skilled in representing our clients in formal and casual dispute procedures, and regularly short counsels and barristers. We will assist you via the legal process, and job in the direction of a resolution of your dispute in the shortest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We offer in-house planning and scheduling services. When delays do occur, we analyse the standard 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 prices using earned values or measured mile methods to establish 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 staminas and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common understanding that the root causes of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns tend to be centered in incomplete project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and poor contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount evaluating capabilities to help our clients devise comprehensive project development purchases and having strategies to significantly de-risk any kind of project. We generally manage the resolution of claims individually. This liberates the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to concentrate on their main goal of delivering the project. The advantages of this approach is a positive cash flow 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 influencing cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Group and communicating them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify appropriate partners that result in teaming contracts and the establishing of effective joint endeavors. We prepared winning proposals developing economic cases required by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to acquire financing for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting pick the best kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We after that help run the ECI phase (if called for), obtain planning and authority authorizations and prepare the needed Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, getting in touch with contracts and provider arrangements. We also aid with contract testimonials, consisting of preparing tender credentials, working out last contracts and drafting any kind of needed changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a path of flaws, 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 service provider 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 diverse abilities needed to cover all aspects of insurance advice and insurance claims management.
Our experience includes policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and representing clients before insurers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist procurement and contract administration resources to specialists throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead things, fabrication and modularization, transport and installment.
Identify counterclaims and use sold off problems. Insurance claims for layout liability, efficiency below specification, incomplete works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication process.