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Independently owned and operating from purpose-built premises in Dartford, Kent, close to the M25. Russell Fewins have been servicing the commercial facilities and commercial removals market across London, Kent, Essex and M25 area for over 10 years. 
 

Our strategy has been to offer a full service for companies and our extensive professional experience has enabled us to offer customers more than just the physical move. We are able to offer a full move management service taking away the logistical and planning headaches associated with office relocations.
 

Our move management service helps to eliminate downtime, improve the experience of company staff and minimise distraction from the company’s core business.
 

Russell Fewins appreciate that business relocation can be a stressful experience  - involving months of careful  preparation and planning. To ensure smooth delivery on the day, we prepare an overall move management plan, followed up by logistical plans, office move checklists and a thorough internal and external communications programme.

Large office moves often result in regular churn and re-stack projects as the new business acclimatises to its new working environment.  If Russell Fewins are involved in the primary business relocation, we can offer a professional and cost effective solution to managing churn and re-stacks.
 

Russell Fewins offers a fully secure archiving and file management service including:

Because complete confidentiality is a prerequisite of any archiving service, all Russell Fewins staff are required to sign confidentiality agreements.
 

In terms of commercial storage our warehousing facilities are CCTV monitored 24 hours a day, protected against fire by state of the art detection and alarm systems, and environmentally controlled to ensure pristine condition of all items stored.
 

We can provide additional resource to supplement external consultants and in-house teams, always ensuring that the IT relocation integrates efficiently with the move phases for other aspects of the project.

Russell Fewins offer a range of office furniture products covering office desking, chairs and storage solutions. 

As part of our move management service, Russell Fewins can also provide office furniture, telecoms and IT audits.

We work to ensure that you get the maximum benefit from the space which is available to you in your new office location.  Our space planning service is a key part of our move management offering.  We can provide you with professional expertise in this key area to ensure that your office layout is efficient and effective for your business needs.

Russell Fewins are approved under the “Safe Contractors Approval Scheme”. As part of our move management service, our project managers will complete an assessment of any specific risks detailing particular highway management needs, access issues or any heavy or unusual objects such as safes.

Corporate relocation is a big venture for any business and has some high-risk elements to it.  Even if you have an in house team, Russell Fewins can provide you with move management consultancy services which offers training workshops, feasibility assessment, office space audits, risk analysis/management and contingency planning

 

The client was a global advertising, marketing and communications company. Russell Fewins were invited to meet with them to discuss their forthcoming relocation of their London offices. We had been recommended to them by another company within their group whom we provide services for on a consistent basis.

 

Initial meeting was held with the client’s senior management. We discussed their forthcoming relocation project to new offices within central London.

 

From the initial briefing, we established a number of requirements:-

 

1)    Full furniture audit including accurate dimensions of existing furniture.

2)    Accurate space plan including design of new partitioned office areas and building accurate CAD furniture blocks for creating office plan.

3)    Parking management would be required due to restricted access.

4)    Accurate crate assessment was required and full crate management service including co-ordinating timed deliveries and collections.

5)    Additional furniture supply

6)    Supply and installation of new carpet tiles.

7)    Supply and installation of improved CAT 6 network cabling.

 

Russell Fewins offered a full turnkey solution we supplied a detail Gantt chart of each service provided this designed to lead into their proposed relocation dates.

 

1)    Full crate management service – Audit taken and accurate quantities supplied with scheduled deliveries & collections.

 

2)    Parking Management – We liaised with Westminster Council to arrange parking access at both collection and delivery locations for scheduled dates.

 

3)    Site meetings with building managers at delivery location to ensure security was in place for out of hours delivery, access to lifts was arranged and that we were aware of the buildings health & safety procedures prior to works.

 

4)    Supply of accurate CAD plan including full furniture audit and design for new partitioned offices.

 

Uplift and removal of existing carpet tiles and supply of new. Arranged and carried out to client’s requirement.

 

We carried out a detailed audit at new site and liaised with Beanstalk Groups IT Managers. Installation of new CAT 6 cabling was programmed into the schedule and carried out in advance of relocation.

 

Initial furniture audit found a deficiency in pedestal numbers and general office storage. This was due to the change in layout at new offices which meant existing units were not suitable.

Russell Fewins supplied additional pedestals and lateral filing cabinets this was built into our project plan with installation co-ordinated prior to relocation.

 

New partitioning was supplied and installed to create a private office area for the companies Managing Director as well as a bespoke out of sight storage and post room area.

 

Russell Fewins fully managed and planned all services to create a seamless project allowing our client to continue to operate without disruption.

 
Michael Puszyk, Projects Director, Russell Fewins Ltd commented: “This was an interesting and exciting project to be involved in, by fully managing all aspects of the relocation and refurbishment with our in house team we were able to offer a complete service to our client, delivering all services to specification on time and within budget.”

 

Michael Puszyk

Projects Director
Russell Fewins Ltd.

0800 7837795