IRN makes possible the reuse of surplus furniture and equipment, any kind, any quantity, through U.S. and international charities
Columbia University 2017: With these loads, Columbia passed 2,000,000 pounds of surplus provided to nonprofits
May 2017 – Columbia had about 4,000 items of residential and other furniture slated for replacement. Here are several hundred desks and wardrobes that have been staged in a dormitory common area, ready to be loaded into a trailer IRN will park outside.
Dozens of refrigerators were part of Columbia’s 2017 replacements. Here Columbia contractors have brought them downstairs and staged them in a basement hallway to be loaded in IRN trailers.
Most of our moving crews use ramps to get furnishings into IRN trailers. Columbia’s crews generally use pure muscle.
A 40-foot box looks awfully big when it’s empty. Columibia’s crews, on average, load a container in under two hours.
On this project, all of the furnishings were going to a single destination, so we didn’t have to keep sets of furniture together.
The refrigerators go up and in. You can’t see it in this photo, but we use cardboard at the lip of the trailer to prevent damage, and use mattresses to pad the fridges on top and in between.
Packing high and tight: If nothing can move, nothing gets damaged. Here bookshelves go on top of wardrobes to fill every cubic inch.
With a good load crew, every trailer is like a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle, with every piece in its place.
We always save a few mattresses for the end of the trailer, to provide cushioning for the load and fill that last eight inches of space.
Ahmed Nassef from Columbia (right), Tucker Jadczak from IRN.
