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 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 likely handled a matter on their projects in similar circumstances to what brought you to this website.

Our offering contains Contract evaluation 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 before entering into the law.

We can help you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering proficiency and on-site construction experience allows 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 conformity along with FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.

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

A well-written contract minimises risks. Prior to you sign any arrangement, we will certainly make certain that it is in your best interests which you understand your direct exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct a detailed contract analysis identifying the essential terms and conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to determine the cause, impact and merit of any claim.

Our written claims include plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Prior to we refer the issue to adjudication, we will also determine the demand for affidavits and expert reports to ensure that claims are able to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are skilled acting for our clients in formal and informal dispute procedures, and regularly quick counsels and barristers. We will direct you through the legal process, and work towards a resolution of your dispute in the quickest 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, simultaneous delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance prices using gained 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 layout.

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 understanding that the root causes of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns have a tendency to be centred in incomplete project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and bad contract and financial control.

We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount checking capacities to help our clients devise comprehensive project development purchase and having strategies to significantly de-risk any type of project. We commonly manage the resolution of claims individually. This frees up the hands and permits the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to concentrate on their key purpose of delivering the project. The benefits of this strategy 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 at all is lost in understanding the issues affecting cost schedule or scope issues internally with the Project Group and communicating them to the Client.

Project Development Strategies International Experience. We help developers identify appropriate companions that bring about teaming arrangements and the establishing of effective joint ventures. We prepared winning proposals developing economic situations required by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to acquire finance for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting choose the best 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 called for Teaming Arrangements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, consisting of head contracts, subcontracts, seeking advice from contracts and provider contracts. We also help with contract evaluations, including preparing tender certifications, working out last contracts and drafting any type of required changes. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a path of flaws, some deep underground where they are difficult to rectify. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable issues, 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 experience includes policy interpretation and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery activity and representing clients in front of 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 purchase of long-lead products, fabrication and modularization, transport and installation.
Identify counterclaims and apply sold off problems. Insurance claims for style liability, performance below specification, incomplete jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow up in the adjudication process.