The Challenge
Envision Schools, a non-profit charter school funded by the Bill Gates Foundation, had three high schools to move over a single summer and only one facilities person to handle all the details.
Our client, Husic Capital Management, was relocating from the Bank of America Building in San Francisco to another beautiful office downtown about six blocks away. The challenge was that they were pulling furniture from storage to outfit their new office. Because the items had been in storage for so long, it was difficult to say what was inside and whether the items would coordinate with their new office space.
150 people! one freight elevator! one weekend. That was the extremely tight deadline to accomplish a move in the San Francisco Bay Area for McKinsey & Company, a global strategic and operational needs consulting firm.
We had two weeks to move a 70-person company. After many months of finalizing the budget and construction plan, we were given a tight deadline to move Grant Thornton’s San Jose employees and clean out their offices. As move management consultants and coordinators, we generally take three months to prepare for a move of this size, so two weeks was definitely a challenge.
San Jose State University was facing a 400-person move and was seeking experienced office relocation services. During this transition, they needed an experienced move management company to oversee the movers, prepare each department internally for the move, and support both the purchasing and facilities departments with project management.
