Engineering and Architecture Firm Moving in Northeast Florida

Pick a week after a big submittal and before the next round of permit comments comes back. Many studios tear down on Friday afternoon and move over the weekend, so the drafting desks and the plotter are live on Monday.

Flat files are the heaviest items in the move and the reason the building’s freight elevator matters. Southside office parks and San Marco and Riverside buildings often have a service elevator, but older two-story buildings may have stairs only, and that changes whether drawers get emptied first. Our walkthrough of both addresses settles that question. The plotter vendor’s visit is the other fixed point; schedule it for the day before at the old office and the first morning at the new one. A larger landlord will want to see our coverage in writing, so ask and we’ll issue a certificate of insurance with that landlord named.

Drawings are the firm’s record, so the drawer labels matter as much as the steel. Every drawer gets its unit number and position before anything comes apart, and emptied drawer contents go into numbered folders that match. Nothing is re-sorted by our crew.

Models travel in padded cartons at the front of the truck with nothing stacked on them, and we unload them before anything else so they aren’t left sitting in a Florida summer truck. A carton of tile or stone samples weighs more than it looks, so those cartons are packed small and loaded low. Flat-file units ride upright on dollies with corner protection, and floors get runners wherever those dollies roll. Drafting stools and adjustable desks are wrapped separately so their cranks and levers don’t snag other pieces on the truck.