Construction Lawyers Sydney
Baker Merz Construction Lawyers is a Quantity Surveying and Law Practice regulated by the Law Society and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Why Clients Choose Us
Our clients rely on our first-hand construction expertise as engineers, quantity surveyors, and contract managers (MCIBSE, C.Eng, MRICS, MAIPM). We are also Adjudicators, regularly representing clients in disputes under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2002. Our credentials ensure we fully understand your situation, develop cost or delay claims in-house, and implement the most effective strategies for quick, efficient results.
Our Services Include
• Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs.
• Provision of specialist procurement and contract administration resources to contractors during the delivery phase.
• Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead items, fabrication and modularisation, transport and installation.
• Identify counterclaims and apply liquidated damages.
• Insurance claims for design liability, performance below specification, incomplete works and re-work.
• Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the Security of Payments adjudication process.
When you need Lawyers who truly understand Construction
What we do…
With over 30 years of experience, we assist developers, builders, contractors, corporations, and local authorities. Our team has worked as design engineers, estimators, schedulers, contract administrators, and project managers. This firsthand experience enables us to expertly prepare and manage contracts, variations, and claims. We specialise in resolving construction disputes with our deep technical, scheduling, and construction knowledge.
As Engineering, Construction, and Law Matter Experts, we can:
• Help you identify the merits of your claim.
• Determine your rights and entitlements under the contract.
• Value your claim and determine the length of an EoT.
• Prepare fully substantiated Payment Claims, Payment Schedules, Adjudication submissions and attend Court on your behalf.
Construction Lawyers Melbourne is here to save you time and money. You do not need to engage a law firm who needs assistance from a ‘a team of construction experts’, WE ARE construction experts that developed 100’s of projects and learnt what it means to be managing contracts on-site before we became lawyers.
To know more about Construction Lawyers in Melbourne or to procure their services, visit their website or contact them at 03 9448 2315
Contact Information
Company: Construction Lawyers Melbourne
Address: Level 10, 440 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia
Contact: 03 9448 2315
Email: [email protected]
Are we going to antagonise the main contractor if we look contractual?
This is an urban myth. It is an inaccurate perception of how subcontractors believe they will be treated by the clients they work for. Yes, warnings are given on-site and strong correspondence is usually issued to discourage subcontractors from becoming 'variation-happy', but as a veteran managers employed by many tier-one companies who attended many a board meeting, we can attest that a contractor’s listing in the tender for another job depends entirely on performance in delivering the works under the contract in the allocated period of time and to the expected quality and price, and not in the efforts contractors spent to administer the contract to the letter and secure their just entitlements. In fact, it is common knowledge amongst Directors who make tough commercial decisions, that only subcontractors who secure their entitlements can survive in this industry - they expect you to be tough, respect you for it, and in spite of all the posturing and aggression they are happy to see you grow with them.
CLM has great back-end experience, do you have any front-end experience?
Absolutely, we produced finance-ready packages for board approval for many projects, complete with packaging, procurement and contracting strategies. Below are some of the slides we produced for Iron Road, where we approached the SA government, Port Authorities, completed a MOU with Thiess and Parsons Brinkerhoff for the development of the entire project
But my planner says that windows analysis is best. Is he right?
Definitely not. In our experience most planners are accustomed to working on one piece of software and using one delay analysis method. He who works on Primavera loathes Ms Project and vice versa, and those who are accustomed to analysing delays using time slice or windows analysis will not have a bar when asked to develop an as planned vs as built schedule.
Communications broke down and we need to make a claim. Can you help us?
Perhaps. We are “true” ‘construction lawyers’. All lawyers are allowed to adopt the moniker ‘construction lawyer’, even if they know nothing about actual construction. These ‘construction lawyer’ create unrealistic expectations (and further loss) for their clients by pursuing claims while oblivious to the fact the claims they are pursuing are invalid and unwinnable.Perhaps. We are “true” ‘construction lawyers’. All lawyers are allowed to adopt the moniker ‘construction lawyer’, even if they know nothing about actual construction. These ‘construction lawyer’ create unrealistic expectations (and further loss) for their clients by pursuing claims while oblivious to the fact the claims they are pursuing are invalid and unwinnable.
