Budget Checklist
The hardest thing about relocating your business is the one thing you forgot... or the ten things. The Relocation Budget Checklist This is a partial list of items to take into account when planning to relocate. You may not need all of these, but each should be considered for both your timeline and your budget. Often a good way to start is to contact a contractor or vendor in each of these areas to determine timeframe needed, budget, etc.
For example, how long before the move do you need to contact the local phone company? If you are not buying a new phone system, how long will the phones be out of service while you move the current system from one building to the next? This list may help you avoid a few headaches.
Request a free copy of the complete Industrial Relocation Guide, which includes this checklist and a lot of other resources.
- ADA Issues (ramps, access, etc.)
- Architect to design space
- Asset inventory
- Banking (deposit location, check printing, etc.)
- Building permits
- Car leasing
- Cleaning
- Computers
- Contractor/build-outs
- Cost of downtime and/or outsourcing
- Data cabling/networking
- Electrical contractor to disconnect and reconnect machinery
- Electricity
- Emergency lighting
- Entrance mats
- Environmental Issues (EPA, asbestos, energy conservation)
- Evacuation plans
- Fencing
- Financing options
- Fire inspection
- Fire protection
- Furniture
- HVAC
- Image (relocation gives you a fresh start and a chance to reconsider logos, etc.)
- Impact on employees (travel distances, etc.)
- Inspections
- Interior decorating
- Internet access
- Landscaping
- Legal fees
- Lighting
- Locks, keys & security codes (and distribution of codes & keys before day 1 in the new facility)
- Mechanical contractor (for process water, air, HVAC)
- Mover
- Natural gas
- Notification of customers
- Notification of employees
- Notification of vendors
- Office equipment (copiers, fax machines, etc.)
- P.R. announcing move
- Paving/parking & road access
- Phone cabling
- Plant engineer to design new production floor (electrical, mechanical, line automation)
- Plants
- Plumbing
- Post office (boxes, meters, permits)
- Printing (business cards, letterhead, forms, moving announcements, checks, etc.)
- Recorded directions & addresses
- Rent, lease or mortgage for both places
- Rigger for moving heavy equipment
- Roofing
- Security Systems
- Signage
- State and local business permits & filings
- Switching your phone service
- Telecom equipment
- Trash removal
- Vending machines, foodservice, coffee service
- Warehouse/storage products & shelving
- Water/sewer
- Web site (changes to address, maps, etc.)
- Zoning
The Relocation Budget Checklist is just one item of many we can provide. Want to suggest additions to this list? Please let us know via e-mail!
This is just a small sample of what's included in the complete Industrial
Relocation Guide. Request your free
copy.