A poorly run office move is one where the team turns up Monday morning to a stack of boxes blocking desks, a couple of monitors missing, and the cabling job nobody planned for. A considered office move is one where Monday morning looks like a working office — kit on desks, cables run, records in cabinets, furniture where the floor plan said it should be.
The Forge approach to commercial moves
- Pre-move walk-throughs with the facilities team at both ends — the move is planned, not improvised.
- Out-of-hours scheduling where the business can't afford a working-day shutdown.
- Plans drawn with the IT lead for kit, cabling and rack handling — labels match the new desk layout.
- Records boxed and sequenced so the filing room rebuilds in order rather than alphabetically by chaos.
- Bespoke and reception furniture wrapped and crated like the domestic specialist pieces they are.
- Snagging walk-through with you the day after — the move is closed off only when the office actually works.
The kinds of commercial moves we run
- Single-floor office relocations — within a building or to a new address in the same town.
- Multi-floor headquarter moves — phased over a weekend or staged across several weekday evenings.
- Professional firm relocations — law, accountancy, design — where the records and the bespoke furniture both matter.
- Retail and hospitality moves — fit-outs, fixtures, back-of-house equipment.
- Educational and institutional moves — school relocations, charity HQ moves, considered handling for archives and artefacts.
- Workspace consolidations — three floors into two, or two offices into one.
What sets a commercial move apart
The two variables that decide a commercial move's success are timing and labelling. Timing because the business can't shut down. Labelling because the new floor plan has to match the labels on the kit, the boxes, the chairs and the cabling. Forge builds both into the brief — the timing as a phased schedule, the labelling as a numbered system that ties survey to delivery without ambiguity.