8 October 2020
The Project
In 2019, Johnsons provided Carl Zeiss Microscopy Ltd with a move management and relocation programme to facilitate their requirement for a building consolidation project. Originally spread over two buildings, a recent audit exposed the opportunity for them to draw down on their sustainable estate strategy and utilise the space of just one area instead.
The project was required to take place over two phases split into the relocation of the production areas in the clean room and the relocation of the main offices.
Scope of Services
The new, modern setting was chosen to mirror the innovative working techniques of both Carl Zeiss Ltd and Carl Zeiss Microscopy Ltd and has been created to provide an open plan, collaborative and flexible working environment for all of our employees.
As-well as being a larger and a more modern building, ZEISS House also hosted excellent meeting and conferencing facilities throughout the three open plan floors. There were 16 meeting rooms and 5 demo rooms for optimal availability and flexibility for their visiting customers. In addition, the new site had a much larger car park for staff and visitors, as well as many local amenities nearby.
Production Area / Clean Room Relocation
The Production Area relocation comprised of a number of specialist pieces of equipment being transitioned from Coldhams Lane to Canbourne Business Park. The items included cylinders of Nitrogen and Helium, fume cabinet, work benches, large crane/A-Frame, small crane/A-Frames, crates and cages as well as Dexion racking.
Prior to all items being transported from the Clean Room, they were shrink-wrapped with a double layer of shrink wrap. This reduced the chances of all the items that are coming out of the clean-room environment being exposed to an environment of over an ISO level 5/10,000 maximum particle classification.
We unwrapped the first layer outside of the airlock at the new premises and then handed all items over to the Zeiss UK staff through the airlock facility to remove the second layer.
All relocation equipment on each shift was segregated so once equipment had entered the clean room it will stay in there in its “clean” state until the relocation shift was completed. In addition to this, we provided separate removal teams and segregated them so they didn’t continuously pass through the airlock between the cleanroom environment.