Claylands

Background

Our client, Chris, was building an extension to the ground floor of his house, budgeting approximately £100,000. 

Structural plans had already been created by another engineering firm when Chris approached Blue Engineering for help with the drainage design. Blue recommended Chris submits the existing structural design to Re-Structured to get assessed. 

Chris already had the builders started on site and they were soon to be ordering the steelwork. He was also managing the build himself and so didn’t want the architecture to change from what had already been designed.

Assessment

Upon receiving the plans, Re-Structured reviewed the design and identified the steelwork specified was excessive. The rest of the structure was considered efficient.

The assessment concluded that significant savings could be made without needing to change the layout of the steels. This was significant because he did not want to slow the project down and disrupt the momentum the contractor had built up on his project. 

Outcome

The Re-Structured assessment was correct. The steelwork was re-specified with new calculations provided leading to a reduction of 675kg of steel, this amounted to a 39% reduction in steelwork. 

Chris saved the client over £3,000, allowing him to upgrade the sliding doors at the back of the extension. He could have just reduced the build cost by 3% instead. 

Re-Structured’s work also contributed to the environment saving the equivalent to a couple of trees in the rainforest. This redesign took less than two days to complete. And with the project now completed, Chris could not be happier.