Harrow Green developed innovative rapid response ‘Hot Teams’. They were tasked with daily crate delivery and collection and material delivery to LMB colleagues – relocating specialist and general equipment at short notice and packing of equipment/ glassware file material. The Hot Teams were flexible in size and were invaluable to the success of the project.

The project required the Restore Harrow Green team to disconnect, move and reconnect approximately 600 Mac/PC IT desk top units.

Two Harrow Green dedicated IT colleagues assisted the LMB IT department in the New building for eight weeks.

We were also tasked to move all the LMB’s server equipment; this included project planning the server relocation. This meant that all servers were audited and documented in preparation, followed by the physical decommission of all hardware, packing in purpose built and secure server cases, then the recommissioning of all servers including connectivity.

On completion Harrow Green completed a de-brief, and handed over documented proof verifying that all servers were installed and working.

The move was planned so that each Science Division was given a specific number of days over which they moved, then a maximum of two days to complete their move.

Harrow Green completed the move to timetable with no overrun!

The downtime to science research projects was expected to be seven days and the reality was they were up and running within three to four days.

• Relocated 440+ Scientists and 160 support colleagues, laboratories, equipment and technology departments.
• Eight-week window with minimal downtime to staff and on-going research projects.
• Specialist crates for chemical and IT moves.
• Daily crate delivery and collection.
• Completed the move to timetable with no overrun.