Construction Lawyers Melbourne
Our Construction Lawyers are Professional Engineers and Adjudicators
Why nominate us for your Legal Engineering Needs?
With a track record spanning over three decades in both designing structures and building them, solving disagreements is second nature to us now. From pinpointing faults to figuring out finances – our arguments are always backed up with thorough evidence. We’ve got a knack for smoothing over half of our disputes before they even hit the courtroom, leaning on strong legal grounds to find friendly resolutions early on. Having worked closely with leaders like CIMIC and CPB gives us a well-rounded understanding of construction conflicts. We likely have experience with issues similar to yours.
Why Choose us?
Fast Results at Low Cost
Our multidisciplinary expertise—spanning legal, engineering, planning, delay analysis, and project costing—enables us to deliver fast, cost-effective solutions tailored to construction projects’ technical intricacies.
Regulated by RICS
We are the only Australian law firm regulated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), reflecting our commitment to the highest industry standards in contracts, planning, and costing.
Tailored Solutions
We provide bespoke legal solutions for contractors, developers, suppliers, and consultants, addressing the unique challenges of each project.
Proactive Approach
We identify and resolve potential issues before they escalate, ensuring comprehensive legal guidance throughout your project.
Client-Centred Service
We prioritise open communication, responsiveness, and collaboration, ensuring personalised attention and informed decision-making.
Industry Connections
Our extensive network of industry professionals supports your success, connecting you with trusted experts across various disciplines.
Our Offers
Our offering consists of:
• Contract review and formation services, strategy and administration
• Planning, Scheduling, EoT, Prolongation, Disruption and Acceleration Claims
• Payment Claims and Schedules – Security of Payments Adjudication Applications & Responses
• Dispute management: Expert determination, arbitration and litigation
We Act in the following Industry Sectors and Builders
Infrastructure, Roads, Bridges
We acted on PI Claims for design errors, omissions and lack of coordination. We also acted on claims for latent conditions, unforeseen utilities, additional detours, EoTs, disruption and constructive acceleration.
Electrical, Windfarms, & Solar
Our Melbourne Principal is an Electrical Engineer. We provided strategic engineering advise to deal with AEMO requirements helping determine the technical case (load flow and harmonics analysis). We prepared Delay and Disruption and Liquidated Damages claims.
Process Plants
We were engaged in providing Contract Management Services for a contractor developing a bottling plant and office facilities. The Project featured water treatment plants (drinking and wastewater), bottling plant equipment, storage, and managing raw materials and finished product conveyors to the truck bay.
Mining
We assisted clients to form Joint Venture agreements to complete feasibility studies to bankable quality, develop and ECI and produce an overall project delivery strategy.
Office Buildings
Over 20-years experience developing landmark buildings such as the Star City Casino with carpark, offices, hotel and apartment towers and Lyric and Show Theatres, the Chiffley Tower building, Manly RSL Club pool complex, Cronulla Shark’s Stadium, and residential estates.
Oil & Gas
We acted on offshore oil and gas production platforms, subsea pipelines, onshore gas-conversion refinery projects, fuel gas areas, pump houses, Steam Turbine Generators (STG) area and Power Plants, gas wellhead skids, crude units, fluid catalytic crackers, light products plants, polymerization plants, amine plants, sulphur plants, and impurities treatment plants.
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]
Our variations are being rejected and we are facing a huge loss. Is there something we can do?
90% of our contractor clients come to see us asking this very same question. The short answer is that it is unlikely that something cannot be done. Although contracts specify what notice needs to be provided, in which form, under which clause, whom it needs to be sent to, and within which timeframe; either these are not strictly followed by the parties during the execution of the contract (until a dispute arises), and this creates a situation where it can be argued that the contract has been changed ‘by conduct’ and the main contractor is estopped from enforcing the contract to the letter.
We are a small subcontracting company and we haven't been paid for all the work we completed for months. We need to be paid, what can we do?
This short-question typically arises when month after month Payment Schedules have lower value than Progress (Payment) Claims. You may try sending payment reminders and claiming the unpaid amounts on subsequent Progress Claims. If it comes to the point when finances are tight and you need to do something more, Letters of Demand certainly do not work (in construction) and you have to instead consider the dispute resolution provisions in the contract, adjudication under the Building Industry Fairness (Security of Payment) Act 2017 (BIFA), or take your claim to the courts.
Which delay analysis method is the best?
It depends on where you are in the timeline for execution of the project and what documentation you have gathered. Separate delay events into excusable and non-excusable, compensable and non-compensable and then analyse the data and its effect on the schedule.
How is our claim going to be presented?
We will prepare the normal P3, P6 or Ms Project analysis with 500 to 15000 activities so we can hand it over to an independent expert, but we will also prepare simple to comprehend graphs which represent the events and data so that non-experts can comprehend the issues and make informed commercial decisions
