Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, a specialist Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides industrial management assistance 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 likely handled an issue on their projects in similar scenarios 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 involve Law Firm that requires to be helped by a "team 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 expertise 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 conformity in addition to FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and conditions and recommend modifications that transfer or re-assign high or unnecessary risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Prior to you sign any contract, we will make sure that it is in your benefits and that you understand your exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct an extensive contract analysis identifying the essential terms and conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to identify the cause, result and merit of any claim.
Our composed claims contain plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the matter to adjudication, we will certainly also establish the requirement for affidavits and expert reports to make sure that claims have the ability to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are knowledgeable substituting our clients in formal and casual dispute procedures, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will certainly assist you through 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 provide internal planning and scheduling services. When delays do occur, we analyse the baseline schedule and development updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We determine delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and productivity rates utilizing gained values or measured mile techniques to establish the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents existing delay and disruption data in particularised and auditable style.
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 staminas and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It prevails expertise 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 bad contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount surveying abilities to help our clients devise all-encompassing project development purchase and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We commonly manage the resolution of claims separately. This frees up the hands and enables the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to concentrate on their primary goal of delivering the project. The benefits of this approach 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 lost in understanding the issues affecting cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Team and connecting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify appropriate partners that lead to teaming contracts and the setting up of effective joint endeavors. We prepared winning propositions developing economic instances called for by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to get financing for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting choose the appropriate kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We after that help run the ECI phase (if needed), get planning and authority authorizations and prepare the required Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, speaking with contracts and supplier agreements. We also assist with contract evaluations, consisting of preparing tender certifications, discussing last contracts and drafting any needed changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a route of flaws, some deep underground where they are impossible to correct. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable defects, insurance, owner or service provider self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted on major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the varied abilities required to cover all aspects of insurance suggestions and insurance claims management.
Our experience consists of 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 expert purchase and contract administration resources to professionals throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for purchase of long-lead products, fabrication and modularization, transport and installment.
Identify counterclaims and use liquidated problems. Insurance claims for layout liability, efficiency below specification, insufficient jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication procedure.