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.