Services

Let’s face it: asbestos was and still is added to a mul­ti­tude of build­ing and con­sumer prod­ucts. Per­haps too late, med­ical evi­dence showed us the “dark side” to this extreme­ly ver­sa­tile nat­ur­al min­er­al. Clients who are con­front­ed with an asbestos-relat­ed issue can feel con­fused and frus­trat­ed when attempt­ing to deal with this heav­i­ly-reg­u­lat­ed, high lia­bil­i­ty issue. AEM staff are ded­i­cat­ed to smooth­ing out the rough spots with our expe­ri­enced team of build­ing inspec­tors, spec­i­fi­ca­tions and plan writ­ers, and on-site over­sight per­son­nel. Our grate­ful clients find that they can relax, sleep at night, and stay focused on their busi­ness with AEM on the job. Whether it’s a response to a flood­ed base­ment in your home, or the com­plete demo­li­tion of a large facil­i­ty, we per­form build­ing inspec­tions, write scope of work, find qual­i­ty asbestos abate­ment and build­ing demo­li­tion con­trac­tors, and make sure they do the job right, all in a time­ly man­ner with excel­lent coor­di­na­tion of all the play­ers. AEM feels that the val­ue in an asbestos abate­ment project is a seam­less exe­cu­tion with empha­sis on com­mu­ni­ca­tion and excel­lent cus­tomer care.

Build­ing Inspec­tion — Under the CDPHE reg­u­la­tion, if you intend to remod­el your home or build­ing or demol­ish it, an asbestos build­ing sur­vey is required. Our staff will assist you in meet­ing the reg­u­la­tions if it is a one-room remod­el or a full demo­li­tion. We will take the required sam­ples to meet the reg­u­la­tions based on your intention.

Air Mon­i­tor­ing — We per­form asbestos clear­ances once an abate­ment has been com­plet­ed so you may con­tin­ue with your ren­o­va­tion or demo­li­tion. We also per­form air mon­i­tor­ing and/or set­tled dust sam­pling if you sus­pect there was a ren­o­va­tion or spill on your prop­er­ty. We receive sev­er­al calls from peo­ple who start­ed a ren­o­va­tion and then dis­cov­er they may have release asbestos fibers in the air. If you had a neigh­bor call the CDPHE or noti­fied a city offi­cial, this test will let you know how to proceed.

Lead — is a high­ly tox­ic met­al found in prod­ucts includ­ing paint, ceram­ics, pipes, sol­ders, gaso­line, bat­ter­ies and cos­met­ics. Since 1980, fed­er­al and state reg­u­la­to­ry stan­dards have helped to min­i­mize or elim­i­nate the amount of lead in con­sumer prod­ucts and occu­pa­tion­al settings.

Today, the most com­mon sources of lead expo­sure in the Unit­ed States are lead-based paint in old­er homes, old pip­ing, con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed soil, house­hold dust, drink­ing water, lead crys­tal, and lead-glazed pot­tery. Lead-based paint can begin to flake and peel as it ages, and can become air­borne, or ingest­ed and lead to seri­ous health problems. 

Lead poi­son­ing is a seri­ous, yet pre­ventable, con­di­tion par­tic­u­lar­ly dam­ag­ing to young chil­dren. Lead poi­son­ing can affect a child’s brain, kid­neys, bone mar­row and oth­er body sys­tems even at low blood lead lev­els. While extreme lead expo­sure can cause a vari­ety of neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­or­ders such as lack of mus­cu­lar coor­di­na­tion, con­vul­sions and coma, much low­er lead lev­els have been asso­ci­at­ed with hyper­ac­tiv­i­ty; deficits in fine motor func­tion, hand-eye coor­di­na­tion, and reac­tion time; and low­ered per­for­mance on intel­li­gence tests.

Chron­ic lead expo­sure in adults can result in increased blood pres­sure, decreased fer­til­i­ty, cataracts, nerve dis­or­ders, mus­cle and joint pain, and mem­o­ry or con­cen­tra­tion problems.

Mold — AEM pro­vides this ser­vice to our client because the exis­tence of mold on their prop­er­ty can expose them to some­thing that may cause health prob­lems and dam­age build­ing, not to men­tion the lia­bil­i­ty and mit­i­ga­tion. Mold often hides in wall cav­i­ties, duct­work and crawl­spaces, is some­thing dif­fi­cult to mit­i­gate and often returns if the abate­ment is incor­rect or incom­plete. AEM staff know this, and strive to find the mold, sam­ple only as need­ed, devel­op an exe­cutable abate­ment plan (often in con­junc­tion with asbestos abate­ment), and assure that the pos­si­bil­i­ty of “return engage­ment” is cut short. On top of all that, we are very capa­ble of putting to rest any fears or con­cerns that your build­ing occu­pants may have regard­ing this issue.

Asbestos Con­sul­ta­tion Ser­vices — Let’s face it: asbestos was and still is added to a mul­ti­tude of build­ing and con­sumer prod­ucts. Per­haps too late, med­ical evi­dence showed us the “dark side” to this extreme­ly ver­sa­tile nat­ur­al min­er­al. Clients who are con­front­ed with an asbestos-relat­ed issue can feel con­fused and frus­trat­ed when attempt­ing to deal with this heav­i­ly-reg­u­lat­ed, high lia­bil­i­ty issue. AEM staff are ded­i­cat­ed to smooth­ing out the rough spots with our expe­ri­enced team of build­ing inspec­tors, spec­i­fi­ca­tions and plan writ­ers, and on-site over­sight per­son­nel. Our grate­ful clients find that they can relax, sleep at night, and stay focused o their busies with AEM on the job. Whether its a response to a flood base­ment in your home, or the com­plete demo­tion of a large facil­i­ty, we per­form build­ing inspec­tions, write cope of work , find qual­i­ty asbestos abate­ment and build­ing demo­li­tion con­trac­tors, and make sure they do the job right, all in a time­ly man­ner with excel­lent coor­di­na­tion of all the play­ers. AEM feels that the val­ue in an asbestos abate­ment project is in seam­less exe­cu­tion with empha­sis on com­mu­ni­ca­tion and excel­lent cus­tomer care.

Build­ing Ren­o­va­tion and Demo­li­tion Sup­port — There are four com­mon envi­ron­men­tal issues with a ren­o­va­tion or demo­li­tion of a giv­en home, build­ing or facil­i­ty: asbestos in build­ing mate­ri­als, PCB’s in light bal­lasts and trans­form­ers, refrig­er­ants, and lead in paint. The Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment, most states, coun­ties and com­mu­ni­ties have strict reg­u­la­tion regard­ing these mate­ri­als. AEM is adept at locat­ing these (and oth­er site-spe­cif­ic) mate­ri­als, devel­op­ing abate­ment plans, waste stream iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and chain-of-cus­tody paper­work and prop­er­ty dis­pos­al. Also, we work close­ly with our clients to assure that max­i­mum amount of build­ing mate­ri­als are recy­cled. AEM staff are well-trained in assist­ing our clients in recov­ery and stor­age of sal­vage­able mate­ri­als, build­ing con­tents, and for the ner­vous home­own­er, secu­ri­ty per­son­al property.

Indoor Air Qual­i­ty —

Radon — is a col­or­less, odor­less, taste­less radioac­tive gas that’s formed dur­ing the nat­ur­al break­down of ura­ni­um in soil, rock and water. Radon exits the ground and can seep into your home through cracks and holes in the foun­da­tion, and can also con­t­a­m­i­nate well water. Radon is the 2nd lead­ing cause of lung can­cer next to cig­a­rette smok­ing.

Approx­i­mate­ly 22,000 deaths a year are attrib­uted to radon. Every 25 min­utes some­one in the Unit­ed States is diag­nosed with radon-induced lung can­cer. A sim­ple test can save a life!

In Col­orado, 1 out of every 2 homes test­ed are above the accept­able lev­el of 4.0 pCi/L. 95% of all coun­ties in Col­orado have radon lev­els above the EPA’s guide­line of 4.0 pCi/L.

VOC — Volatile organ­ic com­pounds (VOCs) are emit­ted as gas­es from cer­tain solids or liq­uids. VOCs include a vari­ety of chem­i­cals, some of which may have short- and long-term adverse health effects. Con­cen­tra­tions of many VOCs are con­sis­tent­ly high­er indoors (up to ten times high­er) than out­doors. VOCs are emit­ted by a wide array of prod­ucts num­ber­ing in the thousands.

Organ­ic chem­i­cals are wide­ly used as ingre­di­ents in house­hold prod­ucts. Paints, var­nish­es and wax all con­tain organ­ic sol­vents, as do many clean­ing, dis­in­fect­ing, cos­met­ic, degreas­ing and hob­by prod­ucts. Fuels are made up of organ­ic chem­i­cals. All of these prod­ucts can release organ­ic com­pounds while you are using them, and, to some degree, when they are stored.

What Prod­ucts Con­tain Volatile organ­ic compounds?

• House­hold Clean­ing supplies
• Paint strip­pers
• Paints and lacquers
• Copiers and printers
• Glues and adhesives
• Air fresh­en­ers
• Pho­to­graph­ic solutions
• Per­ma­nent markers
• Cor­rec­tion fluids
• Pes­ti­cides
• New fur­ni­ture with sealants
• Car­pet and rugs

Pos­si­ble Symp­toms of VoC Exposure

Most of us do real­ize that paint and var­nish fumes usu­al­ly pro­duce strong odors and can often give you headaches but there are oth­er health con­cerns  you may not be aware of that are often caused by VOC expo­sure. Some com­mon symp­toms of VOC exposure.

• Headaches
• Nau­sea
• Can­cer
• Dizzi­ness
• Loss of coordination
• Aller­gic skin reaction
• Eye, nose, and throat irritation
• Dam­age to kid­neys, liv­er, and the cen­tral ner­vous system