MAKING SURE “HOUSTON’S FRONT DOOR” STAYED OPEN.
Move Resource Group was honored to be the move management firm for Greater Houston Partnership’s move to the new Partnership Tower. Greater Houston Partnership is Houston’s ‘front door” to the world, and settling them in their new offices was a tremendous responsibility. Our goal was to ensure as little down-time as possible for everyone in the company. The story of how we did it reads below.
Houston has always been a city of innovative leadership, exhibiting a rich and diverse culture and a hospitable spirit. Now the city has a huge “welcome mat” with the new Partnership Tower, which is a place for global leaders, near and far, to see the city from a unique angle, both inside and outside of the new building. After stepping off the elevator, the interior corridor gives visitors a view of a video/interactive display panel, which can be customized to greet visitors, and the Instagram Wall, which showcases a canvas of Houston’s citizens and sights. Guests can step outside onto the 9th floor, 2,030 sq. ft. terrace to take in a beautiful view of Houston, from downtown to all points beyond. The details included in the new space are articulate, from the acoustics as you move from room to room, to the “greater than” symbols interspersed throughout the glass office panels.
As move managers for the Greater Houston Partnership, we provided the organization with the ability to have a stress-free move, creating minimal downtime for the employees to continue effectively doing their jobs while transitioning to a new building. Move Resource Group relocated Greater Houston Partnership into their new space which occupies 50,000 square feet and can accommodate 120 employees.
Our team members enjoyed the presentations of Greater Houston Partnership’s new space on Media Day and at the Member Open House. We appreciate Greater Houston Partnership’s commitment to hiring their members, such as MRG, to execute this move project. We are proud to be a part of GHP’s move to the new “front door” of Houston!
CHRISTUS.STEHLIN
Move Consultant engaged to manage intricate and delicate cancer research foundation. Facility housed over 7,000 genetically bred mice that contained live cancer cells from specific patients. Consultant was commissioned to relocate colony, which was bred down to 5,000 mice at move time, from one location to another with various departments moving in perfect sequence that would support life sustaining components of the vivarium concurrently in two locations should any emergencies arise or if the building was found unstable for life of the animals.
Consultant provided several personnel to manage and monitor various components of the facility’s relocation and construction. Example is air quality – consultant had to be informed up to the minute of any air quality affects from off gassing, of construction materials that might affect the sustainability of the air to the animals. Any changes or problems would abort the migration mid process.
This research facility’s animals were injected with live cancer cells from patients. In the above photo you can see the labels on the cages which have individual names on them. The need for perfection in this move literally had lives in the balance. This project was managed so that no animals were lost.
Project Facts
- Industry: Cancer Research Facility
- Relocation Planning, Logistics, Sequencing, Oversight
- 26,905 Square Feet Involved
- 10 Month project duration
- Houston, TX
- 20 Employee Relocations
- 7,000 Mouse Vivarium
Benefits
- Client needed a detailed team to program a time sensitive vivarium relocation
- Consultant engaged multiple service providers to oversee equipment programming, relocation of live animals, and file/shelving relocations.
- Develop master relocation plan that insured successful mouse relocation.
- Multiple project managers available to client to manage various move components such as equipment, mice, employee moves.
- Single point of contact Project Manager throughout process.
Client Needs
- Relocation Management
- Executable Plan of Migration
- Vivarium Experience
- Vendor Coordination
- Managing schedule and generate contingency plan to relocate various departments in perfect sequence to support life sustaining components of vivarium concurrently in two locations should any emergencies arise
Services Provided
- Facilitate regular team and vendor project meetings
- Develop relocation plans and contingency plans should any problems arise.
- Identify relocation deliverables and the functional teams responsible for each deliverable
- Oversee all FFE programming and commissioning
- Develop live animal migration plan insuring germ free, stress free environment. Additional components were temperature, weather and building preparedness.
- Perform an additional move of a small colony of animals prior to entire colony migration to insure life sustainability in the new environment.