Fees and the Business of Small Practice
Navigating architectural fees is one of the most important – and most challenging – aspects of practice. Join the ACA’s Business of Small Practice (BoSP) forum on Thursday 6 November for a night with the In Detail podcast team, and a timely conversation about fees. Our speakers will share experiences and insights on the key factors shaping how fees can be successfully structured, communicated and managed.
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The In Detail podcast is the passion project of Kate FitzGerald, Warwick Mihaly and Mick Moloney, three small practice Directors working in Perth, Melbourne and Ballarat. In Detail takes listeners behind the scenes of creative business, revealing the hard-won lessons Mick, Kate and Warwick wish they’d known when they started out.
The trio has tackled the taboo issue of fees in the past on episodes of their podcast and a previous BoSP online discussion on fee variations. They’ve previously received an overwhelming amount of feedback from their listeners about the use of client guides, quantity surveyors and the content of fee proposals. All of this is relevant to the ongoing conversations happening in the BoSP community about fees, budgets and industry price increases.
Enjoy connecting with the BoSP community and see where this fee conversation goes next. If you have any questions you’d like the team to address, send them to victas@aca.org.au. Come prepared to ask questions and share your own experiences – both good and bad – with your fellow BoSPers.
WHEN & WHERE
6–8pm Thursday, 6 November 2025
Brickworks Melbourne Design Studio
T1/367 Collins Street
Melbourne, 3000
COST
ACA members, ArchiTeam, Students $5
Non members $10
We thank event host Brickworks for their support of this event. Ticket proceeds to go to charity. Information to come.
BOOKINGS
Book your ticket below, or head to the booking site.
For any questions, please contact Katherine Ygosse victas@aca.org.au.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Kate FitzGerald is the Co-Founder of Whispering Smith, a Fremantle-based practice delivering residential and commercial projects, Vice-President of the WA Branch of the ACA and Co-Founder of the BoSP. Warwick Mihaly is a Co-Founder at Melbourne-based practice, Mihaly Slocombe with his wife and partner Erica, a former Director at ArchiTeam and the writer behind Panfilo, one of Australia’s most widely read business blogs for architects. Mick Moloney is Co-Founder of Ballarat and Melbourne based practice Moloney Architects, which he runs with his wife and partner, Jules. A registered architect and university educated in both Architecture and Construction Management, he is a generous advocate for small practice, and for his regional home-town of Ballarat.
CPD
This event will deliver 1.5 formal CPD point. The program will include Q&A and a post-event CPD assessment task. Certificates will be issued following participation in the evening’s talk and online submission of answers to CPD questions. More information to come.