Laboratory Relocation Services: Making the Most of Your Lab’s Next Move

Getting your laboratory’s assets from one location to another can be a significant challenge. Whether you are upgrading, downsizing, updating, or expanding, the handling, movement, and documentation of your instrumentation’s performance is critical. This is why you should entrust the laboratory relocation process to a team of experienced experts that can allow you the ability to do your job, as well as the peace of mind that your equipment will leave and arrive as it should. There are many vital steps throughout a laboratory relocation; let’s take a closer look at this process.

Establish the Scope and Schedule for Your Laboratory Relocation Services

Determining the scope is critical for understanding the scale of the project and the different services and expertise required to handle the instrumentation and other assets. This determination will allow your laboratory relocation to establish a realistic and achievable timeline that will keep your operations running smoothly. 

Prioritize Your Workflow and Assets Before the Laboratory Relocation Begins

Mission-critical workflows, assets and instrumentation should be identified before deinstallation and packing. This information will help your relocation team create an efficient and streamlined plan for proceeding at your existing and new sites.

Collaboration with other Laboratory Relocation Stakeholders

All stakeholders will be involved in the move to varying degrees. They need to know what to expect and provide to make the move as successful as possible. A qualified relocation manager specializes in the coordination of this complex set of tasks.

Inventory Instrumentation and Identify Compliance Documentation Before the Laboratory Relocation

Before any instrument leaves the existing site, it needs to be audited. Once this step is done, the new site needs to be inspected for readiness, ensuring that the proper space and peripheral resources are in place and prepared before each instrument is delivered and installed. Before the assets are de-installed and packed, many need to be benchmarked. This process establishes the condition and performance of each instrument before it is moved.

Laboratory Relocation Services at the New Site

Once all instruments are properly packed, they will be transported to the new location, unpacked, and expertly reinstalled. The final aspect of the laboratory relocation process will be to benchmark, qualify, and validate the assets as necessary. 

The experienced team of project managers and engineers at Overbrook understands that managing a laboratory relocation is a full-time job with specific skill sets appropriate to the organizational, engineering, facilities, compliance and experiential tasks required. With their proven track record of strategic planning and execution, you can avoid budget overruns, missed deadlines, and costly downtime.