Flood Brothers, Inc. currently employs over 220 full and part time employees. We are the only relocation company in our market that is committed to putting only company hired employees on every jobsite. Only by implementing an advanced hiring, screening, and training policy for our employees, can we ensure the quality of service that our customers have come to expect. Temporary employees, usually in the form of “Day Laborers”, are an inefficient labor resource because of their lack of skill and motivation. Their inexperience also requires more supervision and absorbs valuable time from the Project Manager. These inefficiencies will result in higher billed hours, strained or missed deadlines, and unacceptable damages to the content and facility. By properly staffing the project you should not have to pay Over Time, which is paying 50% more for a team that is 50% less effective.

Flood Brothers’ team of experienced professionals deliver unparalleled service to hotel owners and developers. This includes both new hotel projects and existing hotel renovations, from as few as 10 to over 2,000 guestrooms and public spaces.

Our Project Management services and solutions for hotels are designed to meet or exceed hotel brand standards and specifications to create the complete guest experience.

Our Project Management and Logistics team insure that your project is done on budget, on time, and to your total satisfaction. The team works closely with general managers, owners, and developers through the entire project process.

As a Certified Member of the Office Moving Alliance Worldwide, Flood Brothers can service any part of the country including many areas of Canada and Europe.

 

TRANSPORTATION (MANAGEMENT AND LOGISTICS)

Our extensive network oftransportation resources includes not only our own local fleet but a transcontinental fleet to most cities nationwide.

• Shipment tracking from vendors to final destination.
• Time sensitive transportation for all product from our warehouse to the property.
• Customs Clearance

WAREHOUSING & INVENTORY CONTROL

Flood Brothers has the capability to handle the warehousing and distribution for any size project. Locally, we have clean, safe, and secure storage for items requiring racking. We also have an agent network of locations to assist you with your storage and distribution project needs nationwide.

Flood Brothers tracks all projects using Windfall™, a proprietary comprehensive asset management software program that tracks each item from delivery to installation and beyond for on and off site asset management.

• Storage and labeling of existing FF&E during renovation.
• Bar-Code Technology with an online computerized inventory system
• Instant online access to your inventory

DISPOSITION

We can assist you with your asset management, liquidation and removal needs. Our aim is meet your environmental and budgetary goals in the disposition of your unwanted furnishings. Also, we have several resources throughout the United States and abroad who may have a need for your FF&E. This will give you more options and a higher return on your liquidated product.

• Assist in liquidation of old FF&E
• Carpet and Furniture removal and disposal
• Removal of existing mattresses and box springs

INSTALLATION

Our specialized installation crews are dedicated to exceed your expectations. Flood Brothers can ensure that your project will be completed on-time, to your complete satisfaction and within your budget. We can install or reconfigure all makes of modular furniture including custom cuts and modifications. We can also install shelving, file systems, case goods, mirrors and artwork. Flood Brothers leads the industry in protecting your building. We use the most advanced systems and products to exceed all building protection requirements.

• Union and Non-Union Labor available
• Experienced Project management
• Hang-able items
• Furniture Repair and Restoration

Flood Brothers utilizes a GREEN MOVES program to reduce negative impacts on the environment while also lowering costs associated with conventional moving and installation services.

“GREEN MOVES” is a program which implements methods to reduce negative impacts on the environment while also lowering costs associated with conventional moving and installation services.

What is “GREEN MOVES”?

Not too long ago, the word “Green” conjured up images of tree hugging activists protesting the evils of commercialism.  Not surprisingly, these images made companies reluctant to adopt “Green” practices.  It doesn’t matter if you accept Global warming, melting ice caps, or other issues touted as “inconvenient truths”. Today, companies implement sustainable practices because of the efficiencies they bring to the bottom line.

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...Sustainable Efficiency means

achieving the same results while

using fewer resources and less labor.

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GREEN MOVES BENEFITS

Sustainability is vital to the success of any organization, as well as their reputation. That’s why Facility Managers are increasingly implementing “GREEN PRACTICES” into their buildings’ design, construction and daily operations.  Now, FLOOD BROTHERS’ GREEN MOVES program provides the opportunity to incorporate these same sustainable efficiencies into their employee relocation management.

FINANCIAL BENEFITS

• Increased productivity with more efficient moving methods
• Fewer building damages by using our innovative building protection products
• Lower energy and waste disposal costs

ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS

• Reduced resource consumption
• Reduced landfill use

SOCIAL BENEFITS

• Promotion of good citizenship as a company
• Reduced employee stress by implementing GREEN MOVES’ more efficient packing/unpacking systems

ENERGY CONSERVATION

Flood Brothers uses alternative fuels whenever possible, as another means to add efficiency and reduce dependencies on non-renewable resources.  Bio-diesel is an alternative fuel produced from domestic and renewable resources such as vegetable oils or animal fats.  Because it is biodegradable, nontoxic, and essentially free of sulfur and aromatics, it meets the clean diesel standards established by the EPA and DOT.

The only alternative fuel to have completely passed the health effects testing requirements of the Clean Air Act.  The use of Bio-diesel results in a substantial reduction (50-80%) of ozone depleting, smog and cancer causing pollutants compared to emissions from diesel fuel.  As well as cleaning the environment, Biodiesel has solvent properties, and it actually cleans your injectors and fuel lines as it travels through the fuel system.

 

WASTE DIVERSION

GREEN MOVES manages waste generated by moving processes by utilizing the following programs:

• Off Site Storage & Asset Management to maximize the life of existing inventories
• Shredding Program
• Electronic destruction
• Pre-Move and Post Move Purge move Campaign

 

GREEN CONTENT PROTECTION

The GREEN MOVES philosophy of “Less is more” is proven to be true when using its methods and materials to pack and protect your company’s office furniture and content.  98% of all the materials used on a certified GREEN MOVE will be reused over and over for years before being recycled.  These efficiencies go straight to the bottom line.

GREEN BUILDING PROTECTION

As an alternative to standard disposable building protection, we use sustainable products that provide better protection, go up in a fraction of the time and can also be used repeatedly for years before being recycled.

WASTE DIVERSION MATRIX

Flood Brothers can assess your waste issues prior to your move and develop a plan reduce environmental footprint of your company’s waste.  Below is a sample Matrix that accurately estimates the potential reduction of landfill space in total tonnage weight and cubic volume.

CERTIFIED GREEN MOVE

We can then certify these findings for your company’s ecological portfolio.  This can be essential whether your goals are to demonstrate good stewardship to your clients or document these efforts in order to achieve LEED Certification.

OTHER MATERIALS & RESORCES

LEED Process Work Sheet
We are the leaders in our industry in promoting LEED products, services and practices.  As a free service to our clients we offer helpful materials on helping them to obtain LEED Certification.
More LEED® Resources on Waste Diversion

• MR P1 - Storage and Collection of Recyclables (prerequisite)
• MR 1.1 - Building Reuse, Maintain 75% of Existing Walls, Floors, & Roof
• MR 1.2 - Building Reuse, Maintain 95% of Existing Walls, Floors & Roof
• MR 1.3 - Building Reuse, Maintain 50% of Interior Non-Structural Elements
• MR 2.1 - Construction Waste Management, Divert 50% from Disposal
• MR 2.2 - Construction Waste Management, Divert 75% from Disposal
• MR 3.1 - Materials Reuse, 5%
• MR 3.2 - Materials Reuse, 10%
• MR 4.1 - Recycled Content, 10% (post-consumer + 1/2 pre-consumer)
• MR 4.2- Recycled Content, 20% (post-consumer + 1/2 pre-consumer)
• MR 5.1 - Regional Materials, 10% Extracted, Processed & Manufactured Regionally
• MR 5.2 - Regional Materials, 20% Extracted, Processed & Manufactured Regionally
• MR 6 - Rapidly Renewable Materials
• MR 7 - Certified Wood

RESOURCES PROVIDED BY

• ENERGY STAR® Qualified Products (www.energystar.gov)

• International Organization for Standardization (ISO). (www.iso.org)

• U.S. Green Building Council (www.usgbc.org)
  LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)LEED-EB, CI, CS and NC

• IFMA Foundation (www.ifmafoundation.org)

PLANNING FOR SUCCESS

Every successful project begins with a plan.  We offer complete project analysis, from floor plan drawings to post move clean up.  One of the many advantages of partnering with Flood Brothers is our expertise in move management.  We will work with your library’s move team to assemble and prepare your collections for relocation.  We go through your move process step by step, allowing for questions to erase any ambiguity.  It is our goal to eliminate obstacles before they happen.

 

 

Collection Relocation, Shifting, Merging, or Segregating

• Planning, Tagging, Moving and Internal Shifting
• Collection Segregation
• Collection Integration
• Assistance with move planning, scheduling, move sequencing
• Coordination of new furniture and shelving installations
• Original floor plan layouts

Temporary or Long-Term Storage

• Storage for Books, furnishings and shelving while you renovate
• Long-term storage and document delivery available to libraries coping with limited space for older materials

Vacuuming/Cleaning

• Triple-filtered micro-stat shelves and books vacuuming
• Hand wiping for fragile materials
• Cleaning of electrostatic shelving

Sorting, Shelving

• Interfiling of materials from shelving backlogs
• Sorting and shelving of opening day collections for new or renovated libraries

RANGE INTEGRITY

Flood Brothers implements the use of proprietary systems, including our exclusive “Range Mover” Technology that insures that books are removed and replaced in the exact order requested by the library.  By keeping the range intact and facilitate a much smoother and quicker process than pulling the books and taking down and rebuilding the ranges.

Flood Brothers implements the use of proprietary systems, including our exclusive “Range Mover” Technology that insures that books are removed and replaced in the exact order requested by the library.  By keeping the range intact and facilitate a much smoother and quicker process than pulling the books and taking down and rebuilding the ranges.

NATIONAL COVERAGE

Also, as a Certified Member of the Office Moving Alliance Worldwide, Flood Brothers can service any part of the country including many areas of Canada and Europe.

LABOR EFFICIENCIES

Flood Brothers generates the optimum crew size to accomplish all projects with little or no downtime during the process.  We also manage the schedule of our crews to ensure that each project is staffed with well rested employees so that movers do not arrive from a normal business hour job and work until they are exhausted late at night.  In this way we minimize damage, maximize performance and generate a fun and positive experience for our staff and our clients.

Our approach is to staff the crew with enough labor to meet or exceed our client’s expectations.  We accomplish this using only full time, trained employees, as opposed to temporary labor.  Flood Brothers realizes the importance of completing each phase of the project within the time limits specified. 

Because Flood Brothers has the South’s largest staff of company employees in our industry, we are never short-staffed.  Therefore we rarely have to charge Over Time.  By properly staffing the project you should not have to pay Over Time, which is paying 50% more for a team that is 50% less effective.  Also, Flood Brothers avoids using “Temp Labor” on a project which virtually eliminates downtime and jobsite delays.

LIMITED BUDGET PROJECTS

Although, Flood Brothers has trained crews for all your Library projects, we recognize that sometimes budgets only allow for alternative labor sources.  We can help make these projects successful by providing our experienced Project Management to work hand in hand with your team.  You can still achieve the efficiencies desired by utilizing their leadership and expertise to direct your labor or volunteers for budget sensitive “do-it-yourself” projects. 

Of course, sometimes you need more labor than you may have currently available.  We can also provide the extra labor to assist your team with the heavier lifting or more tedious tasks that require more hands for your “Hands on” move. 

FLOOD BROTHERS presents the real “MEN IN BLACK”

As one of our most specialized groups of technicians, they are easily identified on our jobsites by their black shirts.  Now, they are affectionately known as the Flood Brothers’ “MEN IN BLACK”.  This is nickname they wear with pride.  They may not be zapping Aliens from outer space, but they can knock out any IT move that gets in their way.

 

IT Relocation

Our IT Technicians are Certified Professionals and therefore qualified and experienced in accomplishing ant IT relocation.  From the smallest Server Rooms to Nations largest Data Centers we can assist your IT Team to achieve your transformation goals.

Flood Brothers is well known as the industry leader in moving, furniture installation and storage.  We now offer the Southeast’s most specialized IT Relocation Team.  Our Flood Brothers’ elite, skilled, and highly trained technicians are completely capable of accomplishing any IT relocation project.  As an extension the Flood Brothers relocation team, they offer the same level of moving expertise. When in comes to moving sensitive electronics these are the experts you need.

 

IT Competence

The ‘Men in Black’ are highly skilled IT technicians with many different levels or degrees of training. All of the Men in Black are CompTIA Certified. Even though the Men in Black are highly trained in the IT industry we still put them through a rigorous training for the moving industry as well. This ensures they know the proper practices for moving, transporting, and setup at the new location or transforming the “Next Generation Data Center”.

IT Strategy

We can minimize risk by working with your IT Manager(s) to develop a strategy that works for project.  Any Strategy starts with a Plan.  Our Project Management Team will develop a plan for your project based your company’s goals and your equipment and facility obstacles.  Flood Brothers will assess the risks involved with your project to eliminate these obstacles prior to the move instead of during the move.

Managing Risks

• Temperature Changes and Humidity
• Customized Moving containers and Specialized Equipment specifically designed for all Data Centers
• Protection to reduce damage to both building and IT equipment