Marcor Completes Mold Remediation

Marcor Remediation Inc., a national environmental services contractor, has completed a large-scale, seven-month mold remediation project at the San Diego Naval Medical Center involving the cleaning and rebuilding of portions of the facility’s HVAC system. The work was handled by Marcor’s Los Angeles and Southern California office, situated in Cerritos, Calif.

Marcor crews worked in phases on four, five-story nursing towers, as well as in the penthouse mechanical equipment rooms. They performed interior demolition of certain contaminated building components, such as the HVAC system’s sound attenuators, followed by reconstruction services. The facility’s towers were closed down, one at a time, for the remediation and rebuilding activities.

The presence of mold in the duct system was discovered after a routine inspection last fall. Although the hospital’s deputy commander reported that the level of mold was lower than in outdoor air and that no related injuries had occurred, the hospital still decided to take action as a precautionary measure.

The work done by Marcor included the removal of contaminated interior fiberglass duck insulation in certain areas of the supply and return ducts and Variable Air Volume (VAV) boxes. The crew applied new thermal/acoustic insulation on the exterior of sections of the ducts and installed elastometric insulation where interior duct insulation was required.

More information is available at www.marcor.com.