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NEED FOR CONCERN:

Today, the average person spends up to 90% of his or her time within the confines of a building. Some of air buildings are emitting high levels of indoor air pollutants, and are responsible for serious short-term and long-term health effects. In a report to Congress, experts estimated that poor indoor air quality (IAQ) is coating employers $10 billion annually in lost productivity, absenteeism, increased health costs, operational expenses, and liability exposure.

Regardless of what type of building you occupy, manage, or design, maintaining proper indoor air quality is an issue that cannot be overlooked. Buildings that have been altered form their original design often have ventilation systems that no longer meet the occupants' needs. Renovation projects that are conducted near occupied spaces have also been identified as a source of cross contamination. Even new buildings, with energy saving, air-tight construction are susceptible to indoor air quality problems stemming from the materials specified in construction.

Indoor air quality problems can develop form a number of sources in and around your building. The exterior cladding might allow moisture to penetrate the building and foster microbial contamination. Your office machinery may be producing chemical contaminations, or the ventilation system may not be supplying enough fresh air to the building.

With all these variables, it is important to have a professional help you assess your indoor air quality condition, and provide you with an accurate IAQ assessment. As a building owner, employee or building professional, you should take a proactive approach to providing a healthy work environment.

SOURCE OF PRACTICAL ADVICE:

Complete Environmental Services (CES) is an experienced environmental engineering consulting firm that is knowledgeable of the complexity of indoor air quality problems. Weare adept in finding the irritant source in a cost-effective manner. After the air contaminant is identified, CES' s familiarity system allows us to provide a quick and accurate remediation solution.

CES starts each IAQ investigation with a comprehensive interview with the building occupants. This extensive interview allows CES to gain insight to all the possible indoor air contaminants CES approaches each investigation with client's cost in mind. Expensive sampling processes are taken only after all other possibilities are explored. During the inspection phase, the building's performance characteristics are fully assessed using state-of-the art instrumentation:

• The air balance of the HV AC system is checked
• The physical condition of the HV AC system is assessed
• The. condition ofthe outside air intake system is investigated
• Standard measurements, such as supply and return airflows, temperature and
  humidity readings are taken
• C02 and Co concentrations, and total dust levels are determined

Once all these factors are assessed, CES will determine if further testing is necessary, i.e. VOC or microbial testing. If a contaminant is identified, CES will provide you with a remediation plan and will work with you to assure that the indoor sir quality problem is eliminated.

Reliability of Complete Environmental Services:

CES has developed the Healthy Environment Program, a certification program that guarantees that your building's indoor air quality is maintained in accordance with ASHRAE's standard 62 and EPA's recommendations for acceptable indoor air quality. After performing our comprehensive IAQ survey, CES will develop proactive IAQ management program and train the building staff to assure that your building has optimum indoor air quality. Implementing an IAQ management program can go a long way towards enhancing relationships with tenants, employees, or other building occupants. Our Healthy Environment Program Certificate informs everyone that your building's indoor air quality is maintained and periodic monitoring. Also, it can help assure that expensive corrective action are avoided.

CES is committed to our clients, and to eliminating and preventing Environmental Site Assessments (ESA), Underground Storage (UST), Asbestos, Lead, troublesome IAQ problems and Waste Management. Our qualified staff of project managers, industrial hygienists, and support personnel combine their relevant experience to provide a coordinated engineering approach toward indoor air quality problems. We are proud because of our tradition of past experience, and high integrity and energy of our personnel who carry on our tradition. Over 98% of our project managers are engineers by education, and share, an overriding value of delivering engineering­based cost-effective solutions. Our qualified personnel achieve their maximum performance by using the most advanced IAQ equipment in the industry. CES has advanced computer network capabilities as well as a large library of software programs, including CADD.

CES, Inc. is committed to providing quality professional consulting services and offers sound and consistent solutions for today's environmental concern on:

• Asbestos
• Lead
• Environmental Site Assessments
• Indoor Air Quality
• Soil
• Underground Storage Tanks