Department of Veteran Affairs

Environmental Services

VA Medical Center - Bay Pines, FL

Asbestos Consulting Services - Mechanical Room
GLE provided asbestos consulting services for the abatement of the HVAC Room in Building 23 of Bay Pines, including project design and onsite monitoring.

Asbestos Roof Survey
The four roofs surveyed at the Bay Pines VA Hospital, were all a built-up roofing system. Buildings surveyed included Building 1, Building 4, the canopy of Building 4, and Building 6.

Asbestos Roofing Survey and Roof Replacement
GLE surveyed portions of Building 36 as follows: The roofs surveyed at the Bay Pines VA Hospital, are all a built-up roofing system.  The section of roof to the far west, is approximately 2963 square feet.  The section of roof west, is approximately 2379 square feet.  The section of roof to the south, is approximately 893 square feet  The section of roof  to the east, is approximately 1752 square feet. The section of roof to the west side, is approximately 556 square feet. 

Asbestos-Containing Roof Flashing Abatement
GLE provided project monitoring and OSHA compliance personnel monitoring for the asbestos containing roof flashing abatement project of building 36 at the Bay Pines, Veterans Administration Hospital, located in Seminole, Florida.

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. Please find a detailed description of this work below.

Floor Tile Replacement - Phase 1, $450,000

GLE provided design, construction documents, and contract administration services for removal and replacement of approximately 40,000 sf of asbestos containing floor tile from the basement and first floors.  GLE also provided asbestos consulting services including abatement design and air monitoring during abatement.

This project was complicated due to all the work being performed in main corridors of this fully operating hospital.  All abatement work was scheduled on weekends with floor tile replacement performed on weeknights.

Floor Tile Replacement - Phase 2, $479,000
GLE provided design, construction documents, and contract administration services for removal and replacement of approximately 40,000 sf of asbestos containing floor tile from the basement and first floors.  GLE also provided asbestos consulting services including abatement design and air monitoring during abatement.

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.

The AMS database system was complemented by CADD drawings showing the location of each asbestos-containing building material present in the facility. This program allowed the VA to track the location, condition and quantity of asbestos, as well as abatement costs.

Field investigations included verification of the general location of all known ACM and the general accuracy of the previous abatement activity record drawings.

Warning labels were placed on ACM at locations where observations were made during the field investigations and at the entrances to all mechanical rooms, crawl spaces, attics and similar locations where signage was appropriate.
A final report was prepared to document the methodology employed in collecting the data, assembling the database and developing the CADD drawings.

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.

Asbestos Consulting Services
Provide asbestos abatement design and specification review services for the VA Administration Building, Number 38.

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.

GLE also provided OSHA personal air monitoring services during the asbestos abatement process to measure and monitor worker exposure concerns. These sampling activities were used to document a safe work environment following asbestos abatement in the designated work areas. GLE also prepared and submitted Asbestos Abatement Specifications to the abatement contractor for use during the asbestos abatement activities conducted at the VA Medical Center. GLE also provided the written specifications in accordance with RFP 247-0298-03, for the asbestos abatement activities planned for the PICU (Phase I - Mental Health Ward Inpatient Wards).

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