When Novetus Engineering's Houston office building sold and every tenant was given notice to leave, the firm faced a relocation with two complications waiting inside it. Five years of cubicle panels were sitting in a storage unit and had to match whatever came next. And on move weekend, the occupancy permit for the new suite still had not arrived. Cubiture solved the first problem before it started and the second one on a Saturday afternoon. Managing Partner Renee Goetz's verdict on the whole project came down to a single word: flawless.
Here is how it went.
The problem in the storage unit
Novetus had downsized years earlier, and the surplus furniture went into storage around 2020. It had been sitting there ever since.
Now the firm was expanding again into a new space, and the math was not simple. How many panels were actually in that unit? What condition were they in? How many more would be needed to fill a floor plan that did not exist yet? And could new panels be matched to material that was five years old?
The job, as Goetz describes it, was to disassemble the cubicles in the old office, collect what was in storage, and match new units to both.
Her team brought back three vendors. One was eliminated quickly. That left two.
Why Jerry won the work
Goetz is direct about what decided it.
“Jerry, honestly, was just the most responsive. He was just the one who, no matter what the question was, no matter the time of the question, he was gonna answer it.”
That matters more than it sounds when a company is coordinating an office move, a storage unit, and a furniture order at the same time. “It took a lot of coordination,” she says.
Cubiture went to the storage unit and inventoried the panels in person. Then Jerry Mogyorody built the layout himself, starting about six months before move-in, when the new space was still raw.
“He came to the office when it was sticky floors and there was nothing.”
When the plan came back with cost variations she could not immediately parse, she asked why. One option had windows.
“He's like, Renee, I think you should do the windows. And I'm like, I think you're right.”
She did. “It's beautiful.”
Not every number held. Additional costs surfaced, as they do when matching discontinued material. “He was like, I'm so sorry,” Goetz recalls. “And I'm like, no, no, look, this happens. I need the material to match. I refuse to have it not matched, so just tell me the cost.”
Late in the process she needed to swap in a height-adjustable sit-stand desk. “He's like, yep, switch it out, done. He makes it easy.”
Two hours to tear down, then a move nobody planned
The teardown set the tone. “God, they were quick,” Goetz says. “They dismantled cubicles in the office in, I want to think, two hours.”
Then the occupancy certificate for the new suite failed to arrive in time. The move was already booked for a weekend. Everything Novetus owned had to go somewhere, so it went into the vacant suite next door.
Which meant that once the paperwork cleared, an entire office had to move a second time, a few feet sideways, into the actual space.
Novetus called Cubiture. “That's why, when it came to finding another company who could move us from next door over, they were the ones that we called. Because I was like, damn, they move kind of quick.”
The crew arrived around 4:30 in the afternoon, on a day that had already run long. Goetz left around 9:30. The Cubiture crew left right after her.
“He was very accommodating, and willing to just go the extra mile,” she says. “Which, for me, that's major. Because sometimes you just don't see that anymore.”
The part that was never in the scope
The measure of a workspace is whether people want to be in it.
Novetus employees had spent months working in a building under demolition. Jackhammers, demo crews, fumes, floors torn apart around them.
“Everyone's moved in and they love the space,” Goetz says. “And those that are in cubicles love the cubicles.”
Goetz had been going in two days a week. She is adding a third.
“Now I'll go in Tuesdays, because it's a new space and it's pretty.”
Asked whether the space makes coming in easier, she does not hedge. “It makes it much easier.”
The storage unit, meanwhile, is closed out. Five years of furniture in limbo, resolved. “It's nice to have everything in one place. I am very, very grateful.”
Would she recommend Cubiture?
“I would recommend him in a heartbeat, without thinking twice. We were very pleased with what we received. The guys were professional, the guys were respectful, they were very easy to work with.”
