Continuum Green services: commercial relocation, IT and data centre moves, planning, furniture installation, asset management, storage, clearance and disposal. Manchester-based, UK-wide.
Continuum Green relocates commercial premises, manages the assets inside them, and deals properly with whatever is left behind. Twenty-three services across moving, planning, storage and end-of-life. Manchester-based, working nationwide.
Continuum Green relocates commercial premises, manages the assets inside them, and deals properly with whatever is left behind. Twenty-three services across moving, planning, storage and end-of-life. Manchester-based, working nationwide.
Most organisations arrive here needing one thing and discover they need three. A move produces surplus. Surplus needs a decision. The decision needs an inventory. That chain is why these services sit together rather than being bought separately from four suppliers.
Everything below is grouped by what you are actually trying to do rather than by internal department. If a service is not ours, it says so on its page.
The single most useful thing to know before contacting anyone: the constraint that will govern your project is rarely the lifting. It is the date the destination is genuinely ready, the lead time on connectivity, and whether anyone has decided what is not coming with you.
Those three answers shape every quote you will receive, and they are worth establishing before you ask for one.
Grouped by premises type, because the binding constraint changes with the building.
| Service | For |
|---|---|
| Office Relocation | The core office move. Survey, sequencing, crates, desk-level reinstatement, out-of-hours delivery. |
| Commercial Relocation | Any commercial premises: retail, warehouse, showroom, workshop. Start here if you are not moving an office. |
| IT Relocation | Workstations, network hardware and comms rooms. Port-mapped, rebuilt to recorded configuration. |
| Data Centre Relocation | Racks, cabinets and infrastructure. Planned shutdown, documented elevations, agreed rollback. |
| Hospital & Healthcare Relocation | Phased around clinical continuity, with patient records moved in sequence. |
| Laboratory Relocation | Lab furniture, general equipment and cold storage, coordinated around manufacturer commissioning. |
| School & Education Removals | Schools, colleges and universities, executed inside the holiday window. |
| Library & Archive Relocation | Collections measured in linear metres, mapped bay to bay, reshelved in classification order. |
| Public Sector Relocation | Councils and government bodies, sequenced around statutory service continuity. |
The work either side of the move itself.
| Service | For |
|---|---|
| Move Planning & Project Management | Programme, sequencing, method statements and building approvals, with one person accountable throughout. |
| Office Furniture Installation | Installation, reconfiguration and reinstatement to a named-position floor plan, with snagging. |
| White Glove Delivery | High-value and sensitive items placed in the room of use, assembled, packaging removed. |
Knowing what you own, moving it between sites, and holding it when dates do not line up.
| Service | For |
|---|---|
| Commercial Asset Management | The overview. How recording, relocating, redeploying and retiring fit together. |
| Furniture Asset Management | Physical audit, tagging and condition grading. The step everything else depends on. |
| Asset Redeployment | Surplus at one site meeting need at another, instead of buying replacements. |
| Commercial Storage | Managed storage between moves. Collected, inventoried, returned on notice. Not self-storage. |
| Document Storage | Records held to your retention dates, retrieved on request, destroyed with certification. |
What happens to everything not going with you.
| Service | For |
|---|---|
| Office Clearance | Full site clearance with streams segregated on site and waste documentation by stream. |
| Office Furniture Clearance | Contents cleared ahead of strip-out or lease handover, with the dilapidations sequence explained. |
| IT Asset Disposal | Redundant IT audited at serial level, data sanitised, value recovered through reuse. |
| Office Furniture Disposal | Surplus routed to redeployment, resale, donation or recovery, in that order. |
| Zero Landfill Decommissioning | The waste hierarchy applied in order, reported by tonnage and stream. |
| Sustainability Services | The overview of where environmental impact sits and what can honestly be evidenced. |
If the list above is more than you wanted, this is the short version.
| If you are | Start here |
|---|---|
| Moving an office | Office relocation |
| Moving premises that are not an office | Commercial relocation |
| Mainly worried about the technology | IT relocation or data centre relocation |
| Leaving a building rather than filling one | Office clearance |
| Unsure what you actually own | Furniture asset management |
| Between two dates and needing somewhere to put things | Commercial storage |
| Reporting on the environmental side | Sustainability services |
Whichever services you end up using, the shape of the project is the same. Knowing it in advance makes the quotes you receive easier to compare.
Enquiry and scoping. A conversation about what is moving, from where, to where, and by when. This is where we establish which of the services above actually apply, and where we say if part of the job belongs to another trade.
Survey. Someone walks both buildings. Volume is assessed from what is physically there rather than from a floor plan, because storage areas and back-of-house are where estimates go wrong. Access is checked at both ends: lifts, loading bays, stair carries, door widths.
Programme and documentation. A sequence built backwards from the date you have to be operational, not forwards from when packing could start. Method statements, risk assessments and insurance certificates go to both building managers, usually weeks ahead, because late submission is a routine reason for a crew being refused entry.
Execution and sign-off. The move itself, then a walk round with you against the plan, snagging logged, crates collected, and documentation issued for anything cleared or disposed of. The paperwork is the part people forget to ask for and the part an auditor asks for first.
Every service here is priced on the same three variables, which is why a quote given without a survey should be treated with suspicion.
Volume is what there is. Access is how hard it is to get to. Hours is when you need it done. The three interact: identical volume through a shared lift on a Saturday-only window costs materially more than the same volume with a full weekend and a dedicated goods lift.
A fourth variable applies to anything involving clearance: sorting depth. Segregating reuse, electricals, confidential paper and dry recycling costs more in labour than filling one container, and produces both a better diversion figure and the documentation to evidence it.
When comparing quotes, the differences are rarely in the move. They are in what sits either side of it: reinstatement standard, day-one support, crate collection, clearance, and whether documentation is included. Compare those line by line before comparing totals, because the cheaper number usually excludes one of them.
Continuum Green is based in Manchester and delivers projects across the UK. In practice that shapes a few things worth knowing before you enquire.
For projects in the North West, survey visits are straightforward and a site can be looked at quickly, which matters when a date is already fixed. Elsewhere in the UK, the survey is still done in person, because volume assessed remotely is volume assessed wrongly, but it needs a little more notice in the diary.
Distance affects sequencing more than it affects price. A long-haul move usually means vehicles loading the evening before, overnight running, and an earlier start at the destination, which is a scheduling question rather than a cost multiplier. What does move the number is the number of vehicle loads, and that comes back to volume.
Building access rules vary regionally in ways people underestimate. Parking suspensions carry different lead times by local authority and are longest in central London. Managed buildings in different cities set different out-of-hours and protection requirements. Both are confirmed at survey rather than assumed from experience elsewhere.
Work outside the UK is arranged through overseas partners who execute in country. We coordinate the UK side and hand over.
Rather than repeating this on twenty-three pages, here is the consolidated list of what we do not do.
No fit-out, partitioning, flooring, decoration, or mechanical and electrical works. No principal contractor role on construction projects. No design, space planning or furniture specification, and we neither manufacture nor sell furniture.
No soft strip demolition, and no industrial machinery, production lines or plant requiring lifting operations. No chemicals, pharmaceuticals, clinical waste or anything needing dangerous goods licensing. No decommissioning or recommissioning of warrantied medical or laboratory equipment.
Moves outside the UK are arranged through overseas partners who execute in country. We coordinate the UK side and hand over. Ask us to be specific about which parts we deliver directly before you rely on it.
Questions that come up before anyone knows which service they need.
If you are moving an office, start with office relocation. If it is any other kind of premises, start with commercial relocation. Everything else tends to attach to one of those two once a survey has happened.
Usually two or three, because a move produces surplus and surplus needs a decision. They are scoped together rather than bought separately, which is normally cheaper than using different suppliers for each.
As soon as the destination is confirmed. The move itself needs weeks; connectivity provisioning and landlord handover need months and set the real timeline.
Yes. We are Manchester-based and work across the UK. International moves are handled with overseas partners.
It is assessed for redeployment, resale or donation before disposal is considered, and you receive documentation for both the reuse and the waste streams.
Tell us what is happening and we will point you at the right service, including telling you when the answer is a different supplier entirely.
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