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 support to clients engaged 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 who have most likely handled an issue on their projects in similar scenarios to what brought you to this website.

Our offering includes Contract review 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 engage a Law office that requires to be helped by a "group of experts" when you have accessibility to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects prior to entering the law.

We can help you with Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering experience and on-site construction experience allows 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 terms and recommend changes that transfer or re-assign high or unneeded risks.

A well-written contract minimises risks. Prior to you authorizing any agreement, we will certainly make certain that it is in your best interests that you understand your direct 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 identify the cause, effect and merit of any kind of claim.

Our composed claims consist of plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Prior to referring the issue to adjudication, we will certainly also figure out the need for affidavits and expert records to make sure that claims have the ability to withstand any type of scrutiny. We are experienced substituting our clients in formal and informal dispute procedures, and regularly short counsels and barristers. We will direct you via 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 standard schedule and progression updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We establish delays, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance prices making use of made values or measured mile techniques to identify the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents existing 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 help our clients understand the toughness and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It prevails knowledge that the root causes of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns tend to be centered in incomplete project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and inadequate contract and financial control.

We combine our legal, engineering, planning and quantity checking capacities to assist our clients devise all-inclusive project development purchase and contracting strategies to significantly de-risk any kind of project. We commonly manage the resolution of claims independently. This maximizes the hands and permits the Contracts Management and Construction Teams to concentrate on their main purpose of delivering the project. The advantages of this approach is a positive cash flow 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 inside with the Project Group and interacting them to the Client.

Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify appropriate companions that result in teaming agreements and the establishing of effective joint endeavors. We prepared winning proposals developing economic cases required by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to acquire financing for their projects in Australia and Overseas and assisted with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting choose the right sort of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).

We then assist run the ECI phase (if needed), get planning and authority authorizations and prepare the calls for Teaming Agreements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, seeking advice from contracts and vendor arrangements. We also aid with contract reviews, consisting of preparing tender credentials, bargaining last contracts and drafting any kind of needed modifications. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a trail of flaws, some deep underground where they are impossible to correct. We provide technical and legal advice on the therapy of rectifiable and un-rectifiable defects, insurance, owner or service provider self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted upon significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the diverse skills required to cover all aspects of insurance advice 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 before insurance firms.

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

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