The background this rests on
Over a decade of environmental assessments and industrial management. Keeping industrial facilities in compliance with local, state, and federal regulations — Title 5 air permitting, EPA, and DEQ among them.
Industrial inspections
Assessed by someone who has run the plant
Industrial buildings have process loads, exhaust systems, and occupied spaces next to process spaces. Kris brings over a decade of environmental assessments and industrial management — keeping industrial facilities in compliance with local, state, and federal regulations, from Title 5 air permitting to EPA and DEQ.
Occupied space is the subject, process space is the context
This is an indoor environmental assessment, not a process safety audit or a compliance inspection. The focus is where people spend their day - offices, control rooms, break areas and the edges of the production floor - measuring carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, total VOCs, temperature, humidity and particulate.
Process areas are assessed as context: what they add to the air, whether exhaust is capturing it, and whether pressure relationships carry it into occupied spaces.
Moisture, materials and the age of the building
Flat roofs, process cooling, wash-down areas and loading docks all bring water in, and thermal imaging with meter readings covers them. Older facilities may hold asbestos-containing insulation, gaskets, flooring or roofing, which is surveyed as its own scope.
What the report may include
- Readings taken during normal operation, by area
- An assessment of ventilation and pressure between process and occupied space
- Envelope and moisture findings
- Any laboratory work, with chain of custody
- A statement of what the assessment does not cover
Questions we get asked
Is this a compliance or regulatory inspection?
No. It is an indoor environmental assessment. It may surface something with a compliance dimension, but it is not an audit against a regulatory standard.
Do we have to shut down?
Usually not. Readings taken during normal operation are generally more representative. Anything that needs a shutdown is identified when the scope is set.
Our own maintenance team already monitors air quality. What does this add?
An independent assessment, with sampling sent to an outside laboratory under chain of custody, in a form you can hand to someone else.