The carefully planned move went seamlessly and disruption to customers was kept to a bare minimum. The dedicated move crew comprised of 20 porters, 2 Foremen and 3 vehicles and drivers. The move was split into six daily phases, moving in a complete floor in each wing each day over a 6 day period to complete the move in time and within budget.

The specially designed building comprises of 2 floors and 3 wings containing approx 50 workstations per wing, a state of the art Council Chamber and a design lead cafè facility.

Xpress Relocations Move Manager Peter Grimes said: "Working with Mid Beds was a pleasure. Their management organisation before the move helped us to gain an understanding of the culture at Mid Beds, and the constant liaison with their project team, together with our eager approach to get the job done

Work began early in 2005 on the £15m project to replace Mid Beds' ageing offices in Ampthill and Biggleswade with a new building which would save repair and refurbishment costs, be more environmentally friendly and accessible and bring staff
together on one site for the first time.

Mid Beds' purpose-built building has low-cost natural ventilation is energy efficient and is fully accessible to disabled people. Modern electronic cabling allows their IT systems to be easily updated to take advantage of new technologies.

Once the "people move" was completed into Priory House, then came the massive task of clearing both Ampthill and Biggleswade of all old furniture and sundry items. In line with the ethos of Mid Beds culture for caring for the environment, unwanted furniture that could be salvaged was donated to local schools and charitable groups. Items that could not be re-distributed were carefully dismantled, split down and taken to the relevant recycling centres.

Xpress Relocation celebrated its 10th Anniversary this year, over those 10 years Xpress has grown along with Milton Keynes.

From fairly humble beginnings in Wymbush, Xpress now occupies 20,000 sq feet of offices and archive warehousing at its headquarters in Bletchley. Headed by a team of move consultants with over thirty years experience between them, they have enabled hundreds of companies to relocate to their new premises with the minimum of disruption and the maximum of praise from the Facilities Managers involved. From small internal churns to multi building moves involving over a thousand staff they have helped plan and execute the successful transfer of all types of office contents including IT, furniture,
filing, libraries, safes and machines.

For further information contact;
Xpress Relocation
Amata House
19 Dane Road
Bletchley
Milton Keynes
MK1 1JQ
Tel: 01908 374999
Fax: 01908 374777
Email: david@xpressrelocation.co.uk
Email: jon@xpressrelocation.co.uk
Web: www.xpressrelocation.co.uk

Xpress Relocation are celebrating 10 years of providing specialist office-moving services to the Milton Keynes business community.

Over these last 10 years we have grown along with Milton Keynes. From fairly humble beginnings in Wymbush we now occupy 20,000 sq feet of offices and archive warehousing at our headquarters in Bletchley.

Headed by our team of move consultants, with over sixty years experience, we have enabled hundreds of companies to relocate to their new premises with the minimum of disruption and the maximum of praise from the Facilities Managers involved. From small internal churns to multi building moves, involving over a thousand staff, we have helped plan and execute the successful transfer of all types of office contents including IT, furniture, filing, libraries, safes and machines.

Recent developments have included the expansion of our own in-house Cad department utilising the latest Computer Aided Design technology and conceptual design facilities.