Pickfords introduces new range of business relocation services


Portakabin achieves


Pickfords Business Moving, the UK’s leading business moving and storage company is continuing to expand its comprehensive range of business relocation services and unveiled a new name for its specialist division in December.


Portakabin has been revealed as one of the UK’s strongest business brands in 2010 by the Superbrands organisation, jumping 67 places since 2008. Portakabin was placed 191st in the prestigious annual listings, moving from 258th in 2008 and 233rd in 2009. The announcement follows a rigorous independent selection process administered by The Centre for Brand Analysis. Now in its tenth year, the Business Superbrands listing identifies the brands that have ‘established the finest reputation in their fields, and which offer significant advantages over their competitors, which customers want and recognise’.


Superbrands status


The views of over 1,700 business professionals and a voluntary Expert Council of 25 senior figures were analysed, and of the thousands of brands considered, only the top 500 are deemed to be Business Superbrands. The Business Superbrands Expert Council and UK business professionals judge each brand against three key factors – the quality of its products and services, consistency of delivery against its promises, and the values that differentiate it from its competitors.


Mike Williams, General Manager of Portakabin Hire, said, “We are absolutely delighted that the Portakabin brand has achieved Business Superbrands status in 2010 – and that our position in the listings has jumped over the past three years. This is testament to the esteem in which the Portakabin brand is held, the outstanding work of our customer service teams across the UK, and our strong position as the UK’s leading modular building specialist.”


Software giant, Microsoft took the top position in this year’s Business Superbrands listing, and new entries into the top 10 include BlackBerry (3rd), Visa (9th) and PriceWaterhouseCoopers (10th). For further information about modular buildings for hire, visit www.portanews.co.uk email information@portakabin.co.uk or call 0845 401 0010.


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As part of the process, Pickfords Business Moving has changed its name to Pickfords Business Solutions.


Pickfords Business Solutions will offer a complete range of services designed to help companies plan and execute workplace change projects or business relocations. The portfolio of services includes: Space planning, furniture planning and procurement, asset management, refurbishment and refit services, IT relocation, environmental reuse and recycling, business moving and storage.


Head of Pickfords Business Solutions Mark Herrington said: “Creating new services for business relocation is a natural progression for us strategically. For our clients, it means we can provide a portfolio of services to help them plan their working environment, integrated at the time of an


internal or external change project.” A new division called ‘Interiors’ has been created to deliver all those services that relate to changing


workplace interiors. Stuart Thacker Head of the Interiors division said “Pickfords’ sister company Premis


Mark Herrington


Transition Management has been providing refit and refurbishment and office furniture planning and procurement for the last five years, so we already have the expertise, infrastructure and track record of successful projects in the industry”. He adds: “Moving these services under the Pickfords name means we can now integrate all our services and deliver significant cost savings to clients who choose more than one service from Pickfords Business Solutions” www.pickfords.co.uk


Email: office-interiors@pickfords.com


Second recycled modular building project at Sellafield


A recycled modular building from Foremans Relocatable Building Systems was selected to provide project offices at Sellafield in Cumbria for the delivery of Sellafield Limited’s Evaporator D project – one of the largest nuclear construction schemes in the UK.


Foremans’ contract is its second at the Sellafield Nuclear Plant. A recycled and refurbished modular building has already been provided for VINCI Construction UK for the Silos Direct Encapsulation Project – a major waste retrieval scheme.


The use of recycled building modules is highly sustainable, up to 70 per cent faster and provides cost savings of up to 50 per cent compared to new build.


Delivered to a challenging timescale of just five months from receipt of order, the building comprises 60 steel-framed modules


which provide open plan and cellular office accommodation and break-out spaces for around 130 staff. The modules were fully refurbished off site to minimise disruption, and configured to meet specific requirements.


Kevin Jones, Managing Director of Foremans, said, “Our two contracts at Sellafield demonstrate how the recycled modular building approach can provide companies and contractors working in the nuclear and utility sectors with purpose- designed and highly cost-effective support facilities for the delivery of major construction and engineering projects. “We were able to deliver both schemes to a tight programme and adapt the buildings to suit the needs of the client and their contractors, as well as meet Sellafield’s stringent security requirements.” The use of recycled modular buildings is one of the most environmentally sound methods of construction. It generates less than 10 per cent of the carbon emissions and uses less than 3 per cent of the energy during construction, compared to a newly manufactured building of equivalent size (source: MPBA/Arup).


Email: info@foremansbuildings.co.uk www.foremansbuildings.info Tel: 01964 544344.


Building & Facilities Management – December 2010/January 2011


Relocation


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