Premier Sustain presents at FM Zero Waste Event
Premier Sustain was delighted to be asked to present the company’s Five Step Approach to Sustainable Furniture Management at an event in Glasgow earlier this week. The conference, New Business Models for Asset Management in FM, was organised by WRAP and Zero Waste Scotland to help encourage the Facilities Management sector to think about new ways of managing its resources, in particular furniture and Information & Communications Technology (ICT).
Business Development Manager, Ann Beavis, presented to delegates about Premier Sustain’s approach to managing redundant furniture resource efficiently, following the successful launch of this sustainable service to the FM sector last year. WRAP has been speaking to Premier Sustain about its approach as this waste stream will be a key focus area for the government funded organisation as it looks to guide the FM sector to more sustainable procurement.
Ann says: “It was an important event and brought together some key stakeholders across the industry. I was pleased to have such a great and warm response to the service offering. It is great to demonstrate how our approach can deliver best practice for FMs as well as helping them meet their CSR commitments.”
For more information visit www.zerowastescotland.org.uk or www.wrap.org.uk
Supporting clients during Jubilee Celebrations and the Olympics
Premier Moves has been undertaking a huge amount of planning to ensure that the neither the Jubilee Celebrations nor the Olympics affect our service delivery to our clients. Our operations team has attended a number of seminars and has access to the latest information on road closures and diversions that will be imposed during these periods.
We recognise that this is a time of uncertainty for many organisations, and particularly for Move and FM Managers who are involved in projects over this time. We have already developed contingency plans to continue to fully support our existing clients and maintain business as usual. Throughout April and May, Premier Moves is offering free consultancy clinic sessions to extend what we have learnt to any FM, Move or Project Manager who would welcome some assistance in planning their move and change services over this time.
For further information about these clinic sessions, please contact Danny Rutter by email at danny.rutter@premiermoves.co.uk or by phone on 07971 685442.
200km of books successfully moved to high-tech home
The UK national library and a major moves contractor, Premier Moves, have just completed a massive project to migrate over 200 linear kilometres of library materials from London to a high-tech archival storage facility in West Yorkshire.
The British Library’s Collection Moves programme – the largest of its kind since the Library moved into its flagship St Pancras building in 1998 – saw some seven million books, journal parts, magazines and sound recordings move from a variety of sites in London to a purpose-built long term storage facility at the Library’s Boston Spa site, near Wetherby. The items involved are mainly ‘lower use’ material which is part of the Library’s wider collection of some 150 million separate items.
Leading single-source relocation company Premier Moves managed and implemented this vast move, in partnership with the British Library over a 36-month period. The project required tremendously careful planning and co-ordination to deliver the relocation of such large quantities of often unique material from the three storage sites in London and some local facilities in Boston Spa. The sheer volume of material to be relocated filled in excess of 200 000 crates; stacked vertically, this material would be as tall as 580 Big Ben Towers.
The British Library holds a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland, adding over three million items every year. It has been one of the Library’s strategy priorities to move material held in off-site stores to purpose-built facilities which feature full temperature and humidity control to maintain collection items in archival standard conditions and therefore drastically increase the life span of the physical items.
The move to Boston Spa, one of the largest and most technologically advanced library repositories in the world, allowed the British Library to rationalise its collection storage and provide future growth space so it can continue to act as guardian of our national collections.
All items were packed in specialist crates secured with two seals to protect the contents. A highly skilled, dedicated and carefully vetted team was established by Premier Moves, who also invested in specialist new plant and equipment to enable the relocation of the 205 linear kilometres of material, weighing the equivalent of 900 African elephants.
The collection items held at Boston Spa continue to be available in the British Library’s St Pancras Reading Rooms, which are used by around half a million researchers every year. Readers order items 48 hours in advance through the Library’s automated book retrieval system.
“We were delighted to be trusted by the British Library to work with the team on this hugely significant and prestigious project. We have extensive experience in specialist moves but this was by far the largest project of this size in the UK, if all the crates were placed end to end the filing on its own would have stretched two thirds of the way from London to its final destination in Yorkshire. It was a privilege to be involved in delivering this important relocation project”, said Dave Russinger, Sales Director of Premier Moves.
”This was an ambitious and complex undertaking and we are delighted that the project has reached a successful conclusion,” said Chris Fletcher, Project Manager of the British Library’s Additional Storage Programme. “Thanks to the very detailed work by colleagues across the Library and from Premier, a greater proportion than ever of the UK national collection is now held in the kind of archival conditions best suited to prolonging the lifespan of printed material.”
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