Construction Lawyers Darwin

About Construction Lawyers Darwin

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 participated in projects across the Infrastructure, Building, Rail and Bus transportation, Telecommunications, Renewable Energy, Mining and Oil and Gas industries.

We utilize dual-qualified engineers-lawyers with first-hand project experience who have most likely handled a matter on their projects in similar scenarios to what brought you to this website.

Our offering contains Contract review 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 requires to be assisted 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 assist you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering experience and on-site construction experience enables us to interpret, analyse and provide contract recommendations 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 along with FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.

We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard conditions and recommend changes that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.

A well-written contract reduces risks. Prior to you sign any agreement, we will certainly see to it that it is in your best interests which you understand your 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 establish the cause, effect and merit of any claim.

Our composed claims include plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the matter to adjudication, we will also figure out the requirement for affidavits and expert reports to ensure that claims are able to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are experienced acting for our clients in formal and informal dispute procedures, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will certainly direct you with the legal process, and work in the direction of a resolution of your dispute in the shortest possible time.

Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We provide internal planning and scheduling services. When delays do happen, we analyse the baseline 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 efficiency rates utilizing earned values or measured mile methods to establish 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 knowledge that the origin of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns tend to be centred in insufficient project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and bad contract and financial control.

We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity evaluating capacities to assist our clients devise comprehensive project development purchase and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any kind of project. We typically manage the resolution of claims individually. This liberates the hands and enables the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to concentrate on their primary goal 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 influencing cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Team and communicating them to the Client.

Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify appropriate partners that lead to teaming agreements and the setting up of effective joint ventures. We prepared winning proposals developing economic instances needed by Financial Institutions that allowed our clients to acquire financing for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting pick the right type of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).

We then assist run the ECI phase (if called for), get planning and authority approvals and prepare the needed Teaming Arrangements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, speaking with contracts and provider contracts. We also aid with contract reviews, consisting of preparing tender qualifications, negotiating final contracts and drafting any needed amendments. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of problems, some deep underground where they are impossible to remedy. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable defects, insurance, owner or contractor self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted on major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the varied abilities called for to cover all facets of insurance recommendations and insurance claims management.

Our proficiency includes policy interpretation and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and standing for clients before insurance providers.

Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist purchase and contract administration sources to specialists during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for purchase of long-lead items, fabrication and modularization, transport and setup.

Identify counterclaims and apply liquidated damages. Insurance claims for layout liability, efficiency below specification, insufficient jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication process.