Energy company securely repurposes office space with Iron Mountain Clean Start

Challenge

• Cleaning up and repurposing multiple refinery office buildings
• Offices filled with dated files and obsolete information assets
• Limited in-house resources or expertise to complete project and protect sensitive information assets

Solution

Iron Mountain Clean Start^®

Outcome

• Secure destruction of 10+ tons of documents and IT assets
• Removal of equipment and racking from office space
• Clean Start to remain part of the company’s real estate process for future office closures, moves, etc.

An American energy organisation was looking to clean up and repurpose office space at a refinery to increase productivity, streamline operations, and reduce costs.

The company originally intended to execute the project itself, but realising that it did not have the in-house resources or expertise to complete the project, it turned to Iron Mountain Clean Start for help.

Clean Start walkthrough and assessment performed and identified:

• 4M+ Documents of various asset types – large format drawings, technical manuals, hr records, invoices, etc.
• Obsolete IT assets containing sensitive information
• Containing sensitive information and office equipment and racking that needed to be removed before the office could be closed