Factors Affecting Microbial Growth The key to a productive staff is creating and maintaining a safe and healthy work environment. Maintaining work equipment and the physical state of a building is important, but there are potential threats lurking in a company’s infrastructure that are too small for the naked eye to see. Fungi and other …
Read moreSafe Handling of Asbestos There was a time in America when the use of asbestos flourished for its remarkable physical properties. A naturally occurring mineral that was resilient in strength, heat and insulating properties, asbestos was woven into textile and mixed in with cement that poured onto our floors and hung our walls. The chemical …
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Airtek Environmental Corp. has become a qualified vendor for the NYC Brownfield Incentive Grant Program. The BIG Program, administered by the NYC Office of Environmental Remediation, provides grants to support projects that help to redevelop brownfield properties in New York City. Developers and property owners can apply for this grant and utilize Airtek Environmental Corp’s …
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The ONLY SBA Courses in Queens In response to a growing need for sustainable building education, Airtek Environmental Corp., a leading provider of environmental consulting, laboratory analysis, and construction industry training services, will introduce the only Sustainable Building Advisor (SBA) course in Queens. The firm has formed a partnership with Queens College to launch the SBA …
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Airtek Launches EPA Lead Renovator Training Course Good News! Airtek has launched an EPA Lead Renovator Training Course. It’s a new law with severe penalties. After April 22, 2010, contractors and property owners who perform renovation, repair, and painting that disturb lead based paint in pre-1978 housing or child occupied facility must be certified by …
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Fiterman Hall Deconstruction and Remediation Airtek is managing all environmental aspects of the Fiterman Hall Deconstruction and Remediation phases. This project has involved careful application of nearly every environmental specialty from industrial hygiene studies for workers accessing the site, to waste characterization of both potentially hazardous building components and normally non-hazardous components impacted by World …
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