Track record: current moves

NHS Blood and Transplant

Over 5000 sq m of laboratories and offices : vital services maintained

As part of a modernisation programme The Bristol National Blood Centre, which is part of NHS Blood and Transplant, needed to plan phased moves to a larger site and ensure that vital services were not interrupted.

Commercial Transfer was awarded the contract for the relocation, which included 5500 square metres of laboratories and offices within Bristol, as well as department moves from Birmingham and Southampton.

Senior Move Managers worked closely with the NHSBT team both in the planning and to oversee the moves through to completion.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Schedules to minimise disruption : phased to 2011

Commercial Transfer has been awarded the contract for Removals and Move Management for this £320 million hospital rebuild. This PFI project involves four sites: Kings Mill Hospital (Sutton in Ashfield), Mansfield Community Hospital, Ashfield, Community Hospital (Kirkby in Ashfield) and Newark Hospital.

Using their many years of experience in hospital moves, Commercial Transfer Move Managers worked closely with hospital teams to formulate move schedules to minimise any disruption to hospital services or to patients.

The first phase is now underway with completion planned for 2011.

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Temporary covered walkways : 28,000 boxes : maps and artefacts

Commercial Transfer was awarded the contract to relocate the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre from Salisbury and Trowbridge to their new site at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham.

The transfer includes the movement of the Conservation Centre from Salisbury; followed by the Archive Conservation Team and the Museum Service Office from Trowbridge; the Record Office and the Local Studies Library from the same site; as well as the Archaeology Services and the Wiltshire Building Records Office. The final phase will be the disposal of furniture and equipment to Green Works for recycling.

The largest phase has been the movement of the archive. This involved the transfer of approximately 28,000 boxes, maps and artefacts currently stored within the Heritage Centre and being relocated to a state of the art facility at the new site.

To assist with this move Commercial Transfer had a purpose-built scaffold erected at the end of the building in Trowbridge, with walkways that sloped down to a height where the high lift tail-lift could reverse onto the platform for loading all the caged material. The whole scaffold was then sheeted to ensure that all the material was moved out under cover.

Eastlake Group / Royal Bank of Scotland

Over 2000 staff relocated : over 1000 desks recycled

Commercial Transfer, working in conjunction with Eastlake Group, was awarded the contract to relocate Royal Bank of Scotland staff and furniture within both the Broad Street premises (NatWest Court) and at Trinity Quay, both in Bristol. This involves large internal relocations, repositioning of furniture and the eventual clearance of the current Redland Building into Trinity Quay.

This work has been carried out over weekend periods, working day and night, for the clearance of Broad Street, including the removal of over 1000 desks to Green Works recycling centres, and the relocation of some 1400 staff within Broad Street and over 500 staff at Trinity Quay.

Other contracts carried out for Eastlake Group / Royal Bank of Scotland include the transfer of 300 staff into Trinity Wharf and the movement of furniture and equipment to Southampton and Truro offices.

Exeter Crown & County Courts

From planning to re-placing : short time frame

Commercial Transfer have carried out the relocation of Exeter Combined Court Centre from Rougemont Castle to their new building in Southernhay.

The brief was to carry out the planning for the relocation, the packing of all filing within the Court buildings; the re-packing and re-placement into the new storage systems within the Court; and finally the transfer of all the staff with desk and personal contents to the new building.

All work was completed to schedule over a short time frame which allowed for minimum disruption to Court services.