Lab moves have two halves. Boxes, benches, and freezers are a moving job. The heavy, vibration-sensitive instruments — microscopes, NMR magnets, semiconductor tools, test stands — are a rigging job. We handle the rigging half: instruments rigged out, moved with shock and tilt control, and set where the vendor needs them.
Quick answer: Lab and precision equipment moving is the rigging and transport of heavy, sensitive instruments — electron microscopes, NMR systems, mass spectrometers, semiconductor process tools, and test equipment — between labs, buildings, or sites. Badass Logistics rigs these instruments with shock and tilt monitoring, coordinates with the equipment vendor and your EHS team, and sets them in place for recommissioning, while your general lab mover handles benches, boxes, and cold storage.
Most lab relocation companies are excellent at packing chemicals, moving freezers without losing samples, and clearing benches. Where they call for help is the equipment that weighs thousands of pounds, sits on a vibration-isolated pad, and has a vendor who needs it within a tight shock limit — an electron microscope column, an NMR magnet, a semiconductor tool, an environmental chamber, a materials test frame.
That's rigging work, and it's the part we do. We walk the route with your facilities, EHS, and the instrument vendor: doorway and corridor widths, freight elevator ratings, floor loading on raised or suspended floors, cleanroom gowning and protocol, and what decontamination has to be certified before anyone touches the tool. The move plan follows the vendor's requirements for decommissioning, securing, and transport.
On move day, instruments are rigged on skates, jacks, or gantries with tilt and shock indicators in place, moved along protected paths, and set on their pads or isolation systems for the vendor to recommission. Moves between sites run as project freight on air-ride equipment, crated where the vendor calls for it.
SEM and TEM systems moved with vendor coordination and vibration control.
Heavy magnet systems rigged within the vendor's handling limits.
Process and metrology tools moved in and out of fabs and cleanrooms.
Mass spectrometers, chromatography systems, and heavy benchtop instruments.
Test frames, shaker tables, environmental chambers, and autoclaves.
Instruments set on pads, isolation systems, and raised floors to spec.
Lab moves go smoothly when every party knows exactly where their work starts and stops:
Decommissions, secures internal components, and recommissions and verifies the instrument after the move.
Decontamination sign-off, cleanroom and building access, utilities, and the new room's readiness.
Benches, boxes, chemicals, and cold storage — the general relocation.
Route survey, rigging plan, protection, moving and setting the heavy and precision instruments, and freight between sites.
Precision equipment rarely fails from a dramatic drop. It fails from accumulated vibration, a hard set-down, or a tilt past the vendor's limit. Our plans control those:
MRI, CT, PET/CT, cath lab and linac moves — rigged in, rigged out, and handled like the instruments they are.
MRI & Medical // riggingGenerators, UPS modules, switchgear, cooling units, and loaded racks — rigged into live and new-build data centers.
Data Center Rigging // riggingHydraulic gantries, jack-and-slide, toe jacks, and air skates — heavy moves where a crane can't reach.
Jacking & Skidding // project freightCustom crates, skids, export packing, and machine prep — done on site by the crew that rigs it out.
Crating & Packing // riggingEngineered lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves — from a few hundred pounds to 200,000 lbs and beyond.
Industrial RiggingSend the instrument list, both locations, and the vendor contact. We'll plan the rigging half of the move.
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