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About CGI advantages How much can you really save using CGIs? And on what?

Imagine you are building a medium size house and you have only 6 workers on site most of the time. Let’s say they cost an average of £150 per day (keeping it low), now imagine that in 6 months of work, you have managed to save only four days of time on final delivery. £150/day/worker * 4 days * 6 workers = £3,600.

You are readying it right! That’s £3,600 of savings that you managed to do only using CGIs and only on bricklayers wages. Now, let’s say that on these four days you saved also the cost of the hotel, which is another £200 /night for all your family, that’s an extra £800 in savings.

This is considering only a medium sized job! Of course you can save more than 4 days of works. Imagine only how long you waste on meetings with brickies while they could keep working if the design was detailed, desired outcomes clear, and they did not have so many questions to ask. If design is not clear in fact, first the labourer stops, then he asks his supervisor who has to stop working as well who in turn has to ask his boss, or the main contractor, or set up direct meeting with the client if there is the chance and it is a small job and he’s able to do so. Meanwhile 1-2 hours of works are gone for 2-3 people, and more hours of work will be spent in a meeting (including client time).

Plus on top of this, usually till the meeting can not be set up, brickies will proceed doing other tasks and not following the most optimal schedule of work, resulting in more wasted time; imagine also that for the next task maybe not all materials are already on site! So more hours wasted to go shopping! And so on! I’m saying this just to show you that saving 4 days of works because of CGIs is a very low estimate! Case studies have proven 5 to 8% of time can be saved because of CGIs.

Now imagine that because instructions were clear, you managed to save also on mistakes! Say for example you were going to buy the wrong kitchen top material that wouldn’t have matched with the kitchen floor! How much it’d have costed you changing it and fit it again?! Calculating the savings on mistakes like this is not an easy task because of all the possible things that can go wrong on a building site. But trust me, if you show the outcome to a professional builder, and you say you want it exactly like in the picture, he should know what needs to be done, quoting the job will be much easier for him, there should be less surprises for you in extra costs! And you can hold on the 3D render if final result don’t match with what they built. So is it worth it to spend £2,500 on CGI before starting a 6 months job? Absolutely! It is worth it probably even for a 2 months job! As I already said before, big companies wouldn’t keep doing it if this was not convenient, but they do. Don’t stay behind, it’s time for you to catch up with their strategies.