Lab Relocation

A molecular drug-research company sought to move its headquarters from Cambridge, Massachusetts to an alternate location. The facility housed 35 employees and 10,000 square feet of chemistry and biological research labs as well as a large animal facility. Months of relocation planning would have to successfully move the entire facility in one week.

Triumvirate took on the lab relocation with its unique ability to tackle from three different angles: laboratory pack and move services, decontamination services, and plan and permit services. Here’s how we executed:

• Our onsite support services, field services, and consulting services all joined forces, with Triumvirate’s regional life science director as the manager of all project phases.
• Prior to the move itself, Triumvirate’s consulting team worked with the research company’s director of operations to set up all of the environmental, health, and safety permits and plans required to operate a new research facility safely and compliant.
• Triumvirate developed a new OSHA and emergency response plans for the new space.
• As a part of the physical move, chemicals in the laboratory were divided into those that needed to be disposed of and those that would be transported as part of the move.
• Those chemicals to be disposed of were lab-packed by Triumvirate’s environmental specialists and sent off to incineration or a landfill.
• The chemicals being kept were similarly packed in drums, but transported to the new location.
• Once the hazardous materials were removed from the facility, the field services team decontaminated each lab surface, including bench tops, drawers, fume hoods, and floors.
• The debris from the facility was then loaded onto Triumvirate trucks for end-disposal.
• On the heels of the decontamination team were Triumvirate’s technical services team, who certified that the labs were clean and collected data for the lab closure report.