Standard Terms of Engagement
Grazi Prada Pty Ltd
ABN 86 635 419 680
Architect: Grazi Prada
Queensland Architect Registration No. 5588
Last updated: 11/09/2026
These Standard Terms of Engagement apply to architectural services provided by Grazi Prada Pty Ltd (we, us, our).
By booking and paying for a consultation, or accepting and paying for a proposal for further architectural services, you (you, your, the client) agree to these terms.
1. Our agreement
Your agreement with us consists of these Standard Terms of Engagement together with the booking information, proposal or other written document describing the services you have engaged us to provide.
For services beyond a Pick My Brain consultation, our proposal will set out the project-specific scope, deliverables, fee, anticipated timeframe and any other relevant requirements.
If there is any inconsistency between these terms and a project-specific proposal, the proposal takes precedence.
2. Pick My Brain consultation
The Pick My Brain consultation is a preliminary architectural consultation designed to help you understand your property, explore ideas and identify possible next steps.
The $330 consultation includes:
- preliminary research into your property before the call;
- a 45-minute online video consultation;
- architectural advice relevant to your property and ideas; and
- a follow-up summary.
The consultation does not include drawings, measured site investigations, applications, approvals, certification, engineering, surveying, quantity surveying, construction documentation or formal construction cost estimates.
Advice provided during the consultation is preliminary and based on the information reasonably available to us at the time.
It must not be relied upon for construction, certification or approval purposes.
3. Consultation bookings, cancellations and refunds
Payment for a Pick My Brain consultation is required in full when booking.
Your booking reserves time in our calendar and includes research undertaken before your consultation. For this reason, bookings are final.
We do not provide refunds, cancellations or rescheduling for change of mind, scheduling conflicts, late attendance or failure to attend.
Please check your availability carefully before booking.
If you arrive late, your consultation will generally still finish at the originally scheduled time.
If we are unable to provide the consultation as booked, we will make reasonable efforts to put things right, including offering another suitable appointment or, where appropriate, a refund.
Nothing in these terms limits any rights or remedies you have under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot legally be excluded.
4. Information from you
You agree to provide the information reasonably required for us to perform the services and, to the best of your knowledge, ensure that information is accurate and complete.
We may rely on information supplied by you and information obtained from existing documents, authorities and publicly available sources without independently verifying its accuracy unless verification is specifically included in our agreed scope.
Existing plans, surveys, photographs and other documents can be useful but are not required for the Pick My Brain consultation.
Delays in receiving information, instructions or decisions from you may affect the delivery of further services.
5. Concept Design and further architectural services
If you engage us for Concept Design or other architectural services, we will provide a written proposal setting out the project-specific scope, deliverables, fee and anticipated timeframe.
Only services specifically included in that proposal form part of our fee.
Unless stated otherwise in the proposal, payment is required in full before services commence.
Services outside the agreed scope are additional services and may incur an additional fee. We will obtain your approval before undertaking material additional services for which an additional fee will be charged.
6. Concept Design limitations
Concept Design drawings and other concept material are prepared for design exploration only.
They are not construction documentation and must not be used for construction, building approval, certification or other purposes requiring detailed or verified documentation.
Concept Design does not confirm or guarantee:
- structural feasibility;
- construction methodology;
- compliance with every applicable planning or building requirement;
- approval by council, a building certifier or any other authority;
- construction cost; or
- that the project can ultimately be built exactly as shown.
Further investigation, documentation and specialist advice may be required before a proposal can proceed.
Concept drawings should be read as CONCEPT DESIGN — NOT FOR CONSTRUCTION.
7. Client decisions and changes
Architecture is an iterative process and we may require information, decisions and feedback from you as the work develops.
Once you have approved a design, direction or stage, subsequent changes requested by you may constitute additional services.
Where a requested change materially affects our work, fee or timeframe, we will let you know before undertaking the additional work.
8. Planning, regulations and approvals
We will provide our services with reasonable professional care and skill.
Planning controls, building requirements, title matters, easements, overlays, site conditions and requirements of relevant authorities may affect what can ultimately be built on a property.
Our advice and design work do not guarantee that a particular proposal will receive planning, building or other approval.
Where we identify an issue requiring investigation or specialist advice outside our scope, we will let you know.
9. Other consultants
We do not engage other consultants on your behalf.
Your project may require advice or services from surveyors, engineers, building certifiers, town planners, quantity surveyors or other specialists.
Where we identify a need for specialist input, we may let you know, but you are responsible for engaging, instructing and paying those consultants directly.
We are not responsible for the services, advice, acts or omissions of consultants or other third parties engaged by you.
10. Construction costs and budget
We do not provide quantity surveying, formal construction cost estimating or project budget monitoring.
You are responsible for establishing and monitoring your project budget.
You may tell us the amount you are comfortable spending and we can take that into consideration when developing a design, but we do not guarantee that a design can be constructed for a particular amount.
Any discussion by us about likely construction costs is indicative only and must not be relied upon as a quotation or formal cost estimate.
Where greater cost certainty is required, you should obtain appropriate advice from a builder or quantity surveyor.
11. Fees
Fees for Concept Design and other architectural services will be stated in our proposal.
Unless stated otherwise, fees are payable in full before services commence.
Any additional services agreed during the project will be charged as advised and agreed with you before that additional work is undertaken.
12. Cancellation of Concept Design or further services
You may end an engagement for Concept Design or other further architectural services by notifying us in writing.
If you cancel after work has commenced, we are entitled to retain the portion of the fee that reasonably reflects the services performed up to the date we receive your cancellation notice.
Any remaining portion of your prepaid fee relating to services not yet performed will be refunded.
For example, if approximately 80% of the agreed services have been performed, we may retain 80% of the fee and refund the remaining 20%.
When determining the proportion of work performed, we may consider the work completed, time spent, project stage reached and other work reasonably undertaken in providing the agreed services. The proportion does not depend solely on the number of final drawings or documents issued.
If we end the engagement, we will similarly account for services already performed and refund any prepaid amount relating to services that will not be provided.
Nothing in this clause limits any rights or remedies under the Australian Consumer Law.
13. Intellectual property
We retain copyright and other intellectual property rights in drawings, designs, sketches, models, documents, images and other material created by us.
Once all amounts due for the relevant services have been paid, you may use our work for the property and purpose for which it was created.
Our work must not be used for another property or purpose, substantially altered, reproduced for another project or commercially exploited without our written permission.
Editable files, source files and working files are not included unless expressly agreed in writing.
14. Project images and confidentiality
Unless agreed otherwise in writing before we commence services, you consent to us photographing, reproducing and publishing the project and our work for our portfolio, website, social media, awards, publications and other professional or promotional purposes.
We will not intentionally publish your name, exact residential address or other personal information that identifies you without your permission.
If your project needs to remain confidential, you must tell us in writing before services commence.
A later request for confidentiality does not require us to withdraw or remove material that has already been published, distributed or submitted.
15. Liability
We are responsible for providing the services within the scope we have agreed with you and with reasonable professional care and skill.
To the maximum extent permitted by law:
- we are not responsible for loss arising from inaccurate, incomplete or subsequently changed information supplied by you or third parties;
- we are not responsible for the acts, omissions, advice or services of consultants, builders, authorities or other third parties;
- we are not responsible for the use of preliminary advice, Concept Design material or other documents for a purpose for which they were not prepared;
- we do not accept responsibility for construction undertaken from Concept Design material or other documentation marked or intended as not for construction; and
- we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss except where liability cannot lawfully be excluded.
Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any liability, consumer guarantee, right or remedy that cannot legally be excluded, restricted or modified.
16. No warranties or guarantees
Except for rights and guarantees that apply by law, we do not give any express warranty or guarantee that:
- a particular design will obtain approval;
- a particular development outcome will be achieved;
- a project will be constructed for a particular cost;
- a property will increase in value;
- a proposed rental income will be achieved; or
- Concept Design material will be suitable for construction without further development and professional review.
Nothing in this clause limits our obligation to exercise reasonable professional care and skill.
17. Electronic communication
You consent to us communicating with you and providing documents electronically.
Where we formally issue drawings or documents as PDFs, those issued documents take precedence over editable, working or other electronic files.
18. Professional obligations
Grazi Prada is an architect registered in Queensland, registration number 5588.
Architectural services provided in Queensland are subject to applicable professional obligations, including the Architects Act 2002 (Qld) and the Board of Architects of Queensland Code of Practice.
19. Australian Consumer Law
Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot legally be excluded, restricted or modified.
Our services will be provided with the level of care and skill required by applicable law.
20. Concerns and disputes
If you have a concern about our services, please contact us first so we have an opportunity to understand and address it.
You and we agree to make a genuine attempt to resolve any dispute through discussion before commencing formal proceedings, except where urgent action is reasonably necessary.
21. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia.
22. Contact
Grazi Prada Pty Ltd
ABN 86 635 419 680
Grazi Prada
Queensland Architect Registration No. 5588
hello@graziprada.com.au
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