EnviroVantage
from 18
Fans with ducting help provide negative air pressure for optimum air quality for both workers and customers alike.
EnviroVantage team members pose for a group photograph in front of the company's 14,000-square-foot headquarters building in Epping, NH.
January 2012 • WASTE HANDLING EQUIPMENT NEWS WEST • Page 19
nies in the area because we design our jobs to include re-doing the windows right away rather than boarding the openings up after the old windows are removed,” he said. “Instead of waiting for the new windows, we already have them in place and ready to install. That saves time and money.” Knightly recalls that he could see what was coming in the way of abatement regulations and the need for precise planning when it comes to C&D work in specialized environments like those that require extensive sound or dust control to help protect the nearby environment of the project. He said that in the early years of his work, he helped write the lead laws in New Hampshire. “As a result, our company was issued the first license for lead abatement in the state, C001.” In projects like hospitals, libraries, schools and other work that calls for extra preventative measures, EnviroVantage has the trained personnel and experience to get the job done properly the first time. One job that currently fits this description is work going on at the Kingswood Regional Vocational High School in Wolfeboro, NH. “On a job like Kingswood, if we hadn’t had 128 people working on the job site, working seven days per week, Kingswood would not have made the schedule that they were on,” he noted. “Because of the kind of work that it was, we needed to do much of the internal demo work with sludge hammers. We needed 100 sludge hammers so our purchasing person went out and got us 100 sledge hammers!” “Projects like those require the jobsite be in the condition that the GC needs to do the remainder of the work that needs to take place once the demo and abatement work is completed. Hospitals are the same way. When an operating room needs to be demoed and replaced with a new one (while the other operating rooms are still up and running), specialty demo work becomes the norm.” Knightly said that since then, he has attempted to be on the cutting edge of C&D and abatement contracting. In this way, he believes that customers will think of his company first when they find that they have a need for this kind of work. EnviroVantage specializes in doing difficult jobs under challenging circumstances. “We use equipment like our mobile VecLoader®, a self-contained, trailer mounted HEPA vacuum for removing asbestos, lead, debris or bird guano and other unwanted material,” he said. “It disposes of those unwanted items directly into waste containers. That saves labor, time and material.” “The harder the job, the better,” he said. “We have done work nationwide. We have even done work on a military base the Azore Islands of Portugal. We trained the local people before starting the work, rather than attempting to bring our people to the job over there. We were not able to bring enough of our people over there to do the job, so we sent instructors. They trained the local workers and the locals earned their certificates. Then, we hired them.” With the capability of handling asbestos, lead, mold and other high risk materials, and offering the assurance of experience of more than two decades of success, EnviroVantage presents a level of skill for customers who require construction demolition projects not commonly met by the majority of C&D businesses in the marketplace. Many of the jobs that EnviroVantage has to do are considered fast track jobs, some that need to be completed in what would seem to be impossibly short schedule. “We thrive on that,” he said. “We figure out what needs to be done and then we do it! Every job these days seems to be a fast track project, so being able to handle multiple tasks such as environmental and abatement on the same project, helps us to complete all aspects of the job in a contained environment, and complete the project on time and within budget. When others say, ‘we can’t, we figure it out and we say, we can!’” For more information on EnviroVantage, visit their website at www.EnviroVantage.com or by calling them at 800640-5323.