Paspalis Centrepoint, Level 1/48-50 Smith St Darwin City NT 0800 Australia

Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, an expert Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides commercial management support to clients participated in projects throughout 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 most likely handled an issue on their projects in similar conditions to what brought you to this website.

Our offering consists of 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 engage Law office that needs to be assisted by a “group of experts” when you have access to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects prior to entering into the law.

We can help 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 compliance as well as 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 unneeded risks.

A well-written contract minimises risks. Before you authorize any type of contract, we will make sure that it is in your best interests and that you understand your exposure.

BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a detailed contract analysis identifying the essential conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to identify the cause, effect and merit of any claim.

Our written claims contain 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 identify the requirement for affidavits and expert records to guarantee that claims have the ability to withstand any type of scrutiny. We are skilled substituting our clients in formal and casual dispute proceedings, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will assist you with the legal process, and job towards 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 happen, we analyse the baseline schedule and development updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We establish delays, concurrent delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance rates using earned values or measured mile approaches to identify the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents present 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 assist our clients understand the toughness 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 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 capabilities to assist our clients devise comprehensive project development purchase and having strategies to significantly de-risk any kind of project. We typically manage the resolution of claims independently. This liberates the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to focus on their key purpose of delivering the project. The benefits of this technique is a positive cashflow from the start and lower overall project administration expenditure. All of our lawyers are construction experts in their very own right, no time is lost in understanding the issues influencing cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Team and connecting them to the Client.

Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify appropriate companions that lead to teaming arrangements and the setting up of successful joint ventures. We prepared winning proposals developing economic instances needed by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to obtain money for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting choose the ideal type of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).

We after that assist run the ECI phase (if called for), acquire planning and authority approvals and prepare the called for 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, consisting of preparing tender certifications, discussing final contracts and drafting any needed amendments. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of problems, some deep underground where they are difficult to remedy. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable flaws, insurance, owner or service provider self-insurance, and even decennial insurance. We acted upon significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the diverse skills needed to cover all facets of insurance recommendations and insurance claims management.

Our expertise consists of policy analysis and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and standing for clients in front of insurance firms.

Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert procurement and contract administration sources to contractors throughout the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead things, fabrication and modularization, transport and installment.

Identify counterclaims and use liquidated damages. Insurance claims for style liability, performance listed below specification, incomplete jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication procedure.