Construction Lawyers Darwin
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 assistance to clients taken part 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 that have likely handled a matter on their projects in similar 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 involve Law office that needs to be helped by a "group of experts" when you have accessibility to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects before entering the law.
We can help you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering expertise and on-site construction experience permits us to interpret, analyse and provide contract referrals 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 compliance as well as FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard terms and suggest changes that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Prior to you authorize any kind of arrangement, we will see to it that it remains in your benefits and that you understand your direct exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a thorough contract analysis identifying the crucial terms in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to identify the cause, effect and merit of any type of claim.
Our composed claims include plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Prior to we refer the issue to adjudication, we will also determine the need for affidavits and expert records to ensure that claims have the ability to withstand any type of scrutiny. We are experienced substituting our clients in formal and informal dispute proceedings, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will certainly direct you with 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 take place, we analyse the baseline 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 efficiency prices making use of gained values or measured mile techniques to determine 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 assist our clients understand the strengths and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It prevails understanding that the source of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns have a tendency to be centred in insufficient project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and poor contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount evaluating abilities to help our clients devise all-encompassing project development purchase and contracting 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 Groups to focus on their key objective of delivering the project. The benefits 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 impacting cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Team and interacting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify suitable companions that bring about teaming contracts and the establishing of successful joint endeavors. We prepared winning proposals developing economic cases required by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to get financing for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS helping select the right type of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We then assist run the ECI phase (if needed), obtain planning and authority approvals and prepare the needed Teaming Arrangements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, seeking advice from contracts and provider agreements. We also assist with contract testimonials, including preparing tender certifications, working out last contracts and drafting any type of required modifications. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of flaws, some deep underground where they are impossible to rectify. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable issues, insurance, proprietor or contractor self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted on major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the varied skills needed to cover all facets of insurance advice and insurance claims management.
Our proficiency consists of policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and representing clients before insurance companies.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist procurement and contract administration sources to contractors during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead items, fabrication and modularization, transport and installation.
Identify counterclaims and use sold off problems. Insurance claims for layout liability, efficiency below specification, incomplete jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication procedure.