In practice, when an organisation wants to change its
facilities – either expand, move or contract – it has
three alternatives:
• expand or change existing facilities at an existing site
• open additional facilities at another site while keeping
all existing facilities
• close down existing operations and move.
As a rule of thumb, around 45% of companies expand
on the same site, a similar number open additional
facilities, and 10% close down existing operations and
move.