Company description
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 taken part in projects throughout 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 that have most likely handled an issue on their projects in similar circumstances to what brought you to this website.
Our offering consists of Contract evaluation and formation 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 before entering 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 throughout 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 in addition to FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard conditions and recommend changes that transfer or re-assign high or unnecessary risks.
A well-written contract reduces risks. Before you authorize any type of arrangement, we will certainly make certain that it is in your benefits which you understand your direct exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a complete contract analysis identifying the vital conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to determine the cause, impact and merit of any type of claim.
Our created claims consist of plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Before we refer the matter to adjudication, we will also establish the need for affidavits and expert records to ensure that claims are able to withstand any scrutiny. We are knowledgeable substituting our clients in formal and casual dispute proceedings, and regularly short counsels and barristers. We will lead 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 offer internal 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 establish delays, concurrent delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and efficiency rates using gained values or measured mile approaches to figure out 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 assist our clients understand the staminas and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common expertise that the source 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 abilities to help our clients devise all-inclusive project development purchase and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We typically manage the resolution of claims individually. This maximizes the hands and permits the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to concentrate on their key objective of delivering the project. The benefits of this approach is a positive cashflow from the start and lower overall project administration expenditure. All of our lawyers are construction experts in their own right, no time is shed in understanding the issues affecting cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Team and interacting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify ideal partners that cause teaming contracts and the establishing of successful joint ventures. We prepared winning propositions developing economic cases needed by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to acquire money for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting choose the best kind of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We after that assist run the ECI phase (if required), obtain planning and authority approvals and prepare the called for Teaming Agreements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, consulting contracts and provider contracts. We also aid with contract evaluations, consisting of preparing tender qualifications, discussing final contracts and drafting any type of needed amendments. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of problems, some deep underground where they are impossible to correct. 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 upon major insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our team developed the varied skills called for to cover all facets of insurance suggestions and insurance claims management.
Our proficiency consists of policy interpretation and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and representing clients before insurers.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of specialist purchase and contract administration resources to professionals during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead items, fabrication and modularization, transport and installment.
Identify counterclaims and use sold off damages. Insurance claims for layout liability, efficiency below specification, incomplete works and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication process.
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