Department of

Veterans Affairs

Various Consulting Services

VA Medical Center - Gainesville, FL

Over the past seven years, GLE has provided professional consulting services for over 70 renovations at the Malcolm Randall Veterans’ Affairs (VA) Medical Center located in Gainesville. GLE typically provides the required Certified Industrial Hygienist services, including survey, design and project monitoring tasks associated with the identification and removal of hazards from specific work area prior to the initiation of planned renovations. We have provided these services for Phase I, II and III flooring replacement projects that included the removal of over 150,000 square feet of asbestos-containing floor tile from this 24-hour occupied facility. Work associated with these projects were coordinated with the VA staff and conducted with complete abatement contractor mobilization and demobilization occurring over consecutive weekends.

James A. Haley VA Hospital - Tampa, FL

GLE served as the VPIH and IH monitor during a multi-based asbestos abatement project for James A. Haley VA Hospital. GLE provided design of a scaffold system to create a raised deck above the main kitchen for asbestos abatement. Work included structural, electrical and mechanical design and review of abatement documents. In addition, GLE provided asbestos abatement design related to the fire alarm system upgrade in an asbestos containing fireproofing environment.

Carl Vinson, Veterans Administration Hospital - Dublin, GA
Asbestos Reinspection and Database Development

GLE was contracted to conduct an asbestos reinspection of this 1,000,000 square foot facility. The work consisted of a review of previous asbestos surveys and drawings and re-assessing the condition of asbestos-containing building materials found in the 30 plus buildings comprising the Dublin facility. All previous survey testing and data was entered into GLE’s asbestos management system (AMS) database platform to assist the VAMC engineering, planning, and maintenance staff in managing their asbestos program.

VA Administration Bldg., Number 38, Lake City, FL
Asbestos Survey

Provide asbestos survey of a three-story structure construction in 1938 with approximately 24,000 s.f of usable floor space. In addition, two basement mechanical, an attic and a crawlspace are present at the facility.

Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, Decatur, Georgia
Asbestos Abatement

Over the past five years, GLE has provided professional asbestos consulting services on projects located on multiple floors at this 240,000-square foot occupied and fully operational medical facility. GLE’s staff of qualified personnel provided the Client with daily asbestos abatement project and air monitoring services, including the on-site analysis of collected air samples using polarized light microscopy (PLM).  GLE’s project monitors remained on-site throughout the abatement to ensure conformance with the contractor’s scope of work and also to conduct air monitoring to document the adequacy of the engineering controls and the achievement of the final clearance criteria. To facilitate worker protection objectives, relative to the OSHA regulations.

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