Field notes from StratumCGI on how UK developers, occupiers, architects, and planning consultants commission and present industrial CGI for warehouse, distribution, cold-chain, and data-centre schemes. Written from the studio side of the brief, with a pre-let voice and a planning-permission grounding.
Three editorial threads run through the corpus. Each thread carries the StratumCGI voice that competitor design-build firms cannot write, because the lens is occupier-facing and presentation-led rather than engineering-led.
Which warehouse, distribution, cold-store, or data-centre type is in play, what each is commissioned for, and what the CGI must show for the brief to land. UK-specific occupier mapping, not a generic taxonomy.
How developers pitch a scheme to occupiers, planning officers, and investors. What the occupier pitch deck needs, what the planning committee pack must depict, and how the same model serves three audiences.
Which decisions a developer makes that the CGI must visualise correctly. Layout, dock count, blast cell placement, racking density, refrigeration plant, AS/RS aisle geometry, and where the brief usually under-specifies.
Eleven industrial typologies that share the warehouse envelope but solve different occupier problems. PRW, multi-temperature, ASRS, cross-dock, last-mile, and data-centre adjacent. How each gets presented to the right audience and what the CGI must prove for each one.
Three additional notes are in production. They publish on a sequenced cadence, after the typology guide proves its query band.
Layout decisions a developer makes that the CGI must show correctly. IMP envelope, glycol subfloor, vapor barrier, in-rack fire suppression, dock-door count, blast-cell placement, and AS/RS aisle width, framed for occupier and planning audiences.
The pre-let stakeholder communications playbook. Occupier pitch, planning committee pack, investor IC deck. What each audience reads first, what the CGI must depict, and how to avoid scheme drift across the three packs.
A pre-commission checklist for UK developers. Planning compliance, MEES 2030, occupier fit-out responsibilities, BREEAM cold-store, refrigeration plant noise mitigation, and what the marketing CGI must depict to be legally safe.
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