Opoplan Terms Of Use and Purchase

While Opoplan will make every effort through the platform to customize the design to your needs based on the information you have inputted and the technology utilised to customise the Designs, You understand and accept that:

• Architectural design is as much art as science and it is not always possible to ensure that a customers requirements and desires whether explicit (stated by the customer in the briefing input) or implicit (ie analysed/detected by Opoplans design software) are fully met. In many situations requirements are in conflict and as with any design process, Opoplan attempts to determine the most important requirement and satisfy these or to achieve an acceptable optimisation of competing requirements.
• The design plan generated in My Opoplan (the online design) is our current  best effort to meet your brief. If it is not to your liking you may, depending n your subscription level, request another design using different briefing inputs.
• Opoplans design process and our ability to closely meet the customers brief depends on technological range of our AI engine and design decision. We are adding improving our systems so Opoplans design responses to customers brief is constantly improving.
• It is up to the customer to decide whether the design solution(s) provided, and visible on the My Opoplan dashboard are acceptable and whether or not they wish to proceed to purchase the downloadable output of them.
• Opoplan cannot visited your plot/site but instead uses online mapping APIs and databases, as well as the briefing inputs you provided, to evaluate and understand it. Due to various limitations inherent in these processes, we may be unaware of local site variations, recent changes and specific conditions that pertain to it and our Designs cannot therefore guarantee to suit your plot/site.
• We do not profess to be aware of location specific permit or consent requirements that may impact on the suitability of the Design for your project. You therefore undertake not to utilize the Design without engaging a suitable professional, normally an engineer, to implement the Design.
• Implementing the design comprises a suitably qualified local professional (usually an engineer) reviewing the potential limitations and considerations mentioned above and elaborating the technical aspects of the design to suit local conditions on your plot and in your locality and to suit your detail requirements.
• Your professional will need to be an expert, in civil and structural engineering and will need to adapt the Design to deal with local conditions such as but not limited to;
  • load bearing capacity of the soil/ground,
  • foundation details, sewerage, drainage, water, waste treatment, engineering design and
  • calculations (of beams, columns and other structural members),
  • building permits/ consents, planning permissions and
  • potential seismic or other natural occurrences/risks that may affect the project.
• Opoplan is not in any way liable to you in respect of any of these matters including the cost of engaging the appropriate professionals to implement the Design.
• The Architectural Design Set provided by Opoplan as well as the online design formats (3D Explorers, viewers, information panels, brief documents), diagrams etc) and other outputs, are intended to communicate an overall arrangement, layout and design. They may form part of an application set for permits, architectural review or to communicate the scope of the Design. However without further work (as outlined above) they are insufficient for building permit applications and do not constitute sufficient information for estimation or procurement.
• They should under no circumstances be used on their own for construction.
• The Builder Layout sets (aka Blueprint) provided by our Design Service comprises drawings and documents intended to provide further information to your local construction professional (usually your custm home the builder) and a greater level of detail together with any schedules, tables and reports provided. They do not however extend to our purport to be a full construction set capable of being used for procurement on their own, nor do they deal with any structural design /calculations, heating/plumbing/mechanical or electrical engineering requirements or drainage services. All of the above will be a matter for your professional and/or Engineer prior to permitting and construction. You should engage a professional with the appropriate qualifications, as well as (public
  liability and professional indemnity) insurances, to supply these detail services to professional standard. Final selection of materials, components, brands/manufacturers or building provisions, proper installation of all elements and components, structural stability, safety and weather proofing and all other details in relation to the construction project are you and /or your construction professional or builder, and Opoplan have no control over or responsibility in regards to such matters.
• The Designs do not include architects or engineers stamps, seals or other certifications and will usually require modification in order to comply with local planning regulations, building regulations or codes.
  Any variation in sizes or types of materials or substitutions decided upon by you, your professional or builder may result in changes to some aspects of the Design, all of which will be your responsibility and all modifications and use of the Designs carried out by you, your professional other advisors or your contractor on your behalf is done solely at your own risk.
• Responsibility of Customers, Builders and Professionals
  
  

For the avoidance of doubt, it is the customers responsibility to:

• appoint a local professional to carry out the above structural and engineering designs, including
  applying for and receiving all required permits and approvals, before commencing construction and to
• appoint a competent contractor (builder) to plan, manage build, complete and commission your new house (see below also).

Normally this should be done using a formal construction contract on which both parties should be legally advised. If you are using Opoplans services via a local custom home or other builder r construction professional who is an Opoplan subscriber, that subscriber is normally your contractor. It is the contractors, or in the event there is no contractor the customers, responsibility, subject to the abovementioned construction contract, to:

• check the plans and drawings prior to construction to verify all dimensions and details for overall
  accuracy appropriate to the local conditions and site.
• ensure that any and all construction work (including demolition) is compliant with local ordinances, regulations, building codes and the granted permits or approvals/consents.
• liaise with the customer on choice of components (windows, doors, stairs, balustrades/, railings, materials, finishes, furnishing and landscape (hard and soft).
• follow best construction practice as required and legislated for in the specific project locality such that the customer receives a legally compliant, structurally sound, weather proof, comfortable and safe
  house built and finished to modern standards.
• manage the building process professionally including; adhering to any condition set out in granted permits or consents, safety and health (of public, neighbours, workers and the customer ) on, in and near the project site, arranging inspections required by local authorities, managing relationships with neighbours regarding construction operations affecting them, managing the general operations, processes and sequences of building, managing the selection and management of subcontractors or
  suppliers as required and ensuring all materials equipment, components are fit for purpose.
• You the customer accept that the decisions taken before and during construction by the contractor, and you, as to exact components, building systems and details of the construction may change the appearance, size and relationship of elements of the design. This is considered to be normal and in no way deficient by Opoplan.