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 engaged 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 likely handled an issue on their projects in similar conditions to what brought you to this website.
Our offering contains Contract testimonial 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 needs to be helped by a “group 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 expertise and on-site construction experience permits 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 along with FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard conditions and suggest changes that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Prior to you sign any agreement, we will make sure 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 an extensive contract analysis identifying the crucial terms in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to identify the cause, impact and merit of any kind of claim.
Our composed claims include plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Prior to we refer the matter to adjudication, we will certainly also figure out the demand for affidavits and expert records to make certain that claims are able to withstand any scrutiny. We are skilled substituting our clients in formal and informal dispute proceedings, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will certainly direct you via the legal process, and work towards a resolution of your dispute in the shortest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We provide in-house planning and scheduling services. When delays do take place, we analyse the baseline schedule and progression updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We identify delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance rates using made values or measured mile techniques to identify the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents existing 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 help our clients understand the staminas and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It prevails expertise that the root causes of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns tend to be centred in incomplete project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and poor contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity evaluating capabilities to assist our clients devise all-encompassing project development purchase and having strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We typically manage the resolution of claims separately. This liberates the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to focus on their primary purpose of delivering the project. The benefits of this strategy 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 is shed in understanding the issues influencing cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Group and interacting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify suitable partners that lead to teaming arrangements and the setting up of successful joint endeavors. We prepared winning propositions developing economic situations called for by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to acquire money for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS helping pick the right kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, etc).
We after that assist run the ECI phase (if required), get planning and authority approvals and prepare the needed Teaming Contracts, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, getting in touch with contracts and supplier contracts. We also aid with contract reviews, including preparing tender credentials, working out final contracts and drafting any required changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a route of defects, some deep underground where they are impossible to rectify. We provide technical and legal advise on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable problems, insurance, owner or contractor self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted on significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, federal government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the varied skills needed to cover all elements of insurance suggestions and insurance claims management.
Our proficiency includes policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and standing for clients before insurance companies.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist procurement and contract administration sources to service providers throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead items, fabrication and modularization, transport and setup.
Identify counterclaims and use sold off damages. Insurance claims for layout liability, efficiency listed below specification, incomplete jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication process.
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