About
Movers who plan first
Summit was started in 2009 by two project managers who were tired of watching good crews fail on bad schedules. The crews are ours, the warehouse is ours, and the plan comes before the truck.
- Founded2009, Houston
- Movers on payroll64
- WarehouseMilwee Street, sprinklered
How it started
A scheduling company that happens to own trucks
The first Summit project was a 40-seat engineering office in the Energy Corridor that three other movers had quoted in a single Saturday. We measured the freight car, did the arithmetic and told the client it needed two. They moved us to the bottom of the list, then called back on the Monday after the first attempt failed.
Seventeen years later the method has not changed. We find the constraint, phase against it, and write everything down. That is why our crews are on our own payroll and background checked, why the warehouse is barcoded, and why a rack does not leave a room until somebody has drawn where it is going.
We work across the eight-county Houston area and run interstate lanes from the same yard on Milwee Street. Office, healthcare, laboratory, education and professional services, from a twelve-desk suite to a phased campus programme.
- Every mover on our payroll, background checked before their first shift
- Certificates of insurance issued within 24 hours of the building requirement
- Written method statements for anything rigged or in a regulated space
- USDOT 0000000 | MC 000000 | TxDMV 000000C (demo placeholders)
How we work
Four things we will not trade away
- 01
Measure, then promise
Every date we agree is built from a measured constraint: a freight car cycle, a dock window, a recalibration time. We would rather tell you in week one that your move needs two weekends.
- 02
One name on the project
The project manager who surveys your space runs the move and signs the punch list. Nobody gets handed to a dispatcher.
- 03
Write it down
Rack elevations, method statements, custody logs, diversion reports. If it matters at two in the morning, it exists on paper before the night it matters.
- 04
Say what we will not do
We do not carry solvents, gases or hazardous waste, and we say so at survey rather than on move day. Boundaries stated early are cheaper than surprises.
Summit in numbers
Summit Commercial Relocation in numbers
- 1,284Commercial projects delivered since 2009
- 4.1MSquare feet relocated across Houston
- 96%Opened on the scheduled business day
- 24 hrTurnaround on certificates of insurance
Sample figures prepared for this demonstration site.
The team
Project desk
The people who run your project
Six people you will actually speak to. Everyone on a Summit crew is on our payroll and background checked.
Marisol Trevino
Principal, project management
Runs the project management desk and personally scopes every project above 150 seats.
Nineteen years in commercial relocation, the last eleven in Houston. Writes the method statements for regulated spaces.
Anders Bekele
Operations director
Owns crew planning, truck waves and the dispatch board that keeps six projects from colliding.
Former warehouse manager. Rebuilt our labelling system after one bad Monday in 2016, and it has not changed since.
Dana Whitfield
Technical services manager
Leads IT, laboratory and equipment relocations and signs every chain-of-custody log.
Background in data centre operations. Draws the rack elevations herself and will not let a rack move without one.
Colin Mbeki
Senior move supervisor
Holds the destination on large weekend windows and walks the punch list with your facilities lead.
Fourteen years on the floor. Trains every new crew member on protection, labelling and how to read a floor plan.
Ingrid Solheim
Client services and insurance
Issues certificates of insurance, chases building approvals and answers the questions property managers ask.
Turns around COIs within 24 hours, with the additional insured wording each building actually requires.
Hector Villalobos
Warehouse and asset manager
Runs the Milwee Street warehouse, the barcode system and every scheduled release to site.
Knows where 2,400 vaults and pallet positions are without opening the system, though he still checks.
Equipment
What we own
Owning the fleet and the warehouse is why a schedule holds when something goes wrong at 9 pm on a Saturday.
- 926 ft box trucks with lift gates
- 453 ft trailers for interstate lanes
- 3Air-ride units for technical loads
- 6,200Rental crates in circulation
- 2,400Vault and pallet positions
- 64Movers on payroll
Sample figures prepared for this demonstration site.
They were blunt at survey about what they would not carry. That honesty saved us a week of arguing about solvents later.
Next step
Book the survey before you book the date
Freight elevator windows in downtown towers are commonly reserved four to six weeks out. The survey is what tells you whether your date is real.