Planit worked with UCB Celltech involving relocating 400 staff and laboratories from 2 buildings on Slough's Trading Estate and staff from Cambridge to their new research facility nearby in Berkshire.
As part of their wider plan to refurbish the labs following the merge of UCB and Celltech, Planit ran competitive tender exercises for the main physical moves and for the more specialised, chemical, live freezer and ultra cold environment moves.In addition to the write up areas, we scheduled the equipment and cold store transfers, working alongside UCB's laboratory technicians. This included the transfer of live -80 freezer units along with other cold stores and all ambient material held within each laboratory and centralised stores.
In 2010, after this initial project finished, Planit were engaged to assist UCB in their closure programme for their R&D site at Granta Park, Cambridge. Planit undertook a condition audit of their laboratory equipment. This was then circulated to UCB's science groups across Europe. Planit then collated all requests that were received, obtained sign off and then developed and managed the logistics of transferring the equipment to the relevant countries.
All equipment was packed into foam lined bespoke ply cases, with pallet truck access. Inventories for each location were completed and Customs & Excise documentation completed.In total 7 x 17T loads of equipment was relocated, including Tecan robots, scintillation counters, HPLC’s, Fume Cupboards, Incubators, Centrifuges and Mass Spectrometers. The remaining equipment in the unoccupied laboratories was consolidated and sold later at auction.
The Final stage of this project took place early in 2011. This involved relocating fume hoods and equipment to the facilities at Slough and then clearing all surplus office furniture, lab furniture, including fume cupboards and misc items. This also then resulted in further shipments to Europe.
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