The Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) is seeking volunteers to serve on consensus bodies for the development of a new Standard, the BSR/IICRC S900 Standard for Professional Remediation of Illicit Drugs, Cannabis and Nicotine Residue.
The recipients were selected by an independent, distinguished panel of ten business ethics experts and will be recognized at the annual Torch Awards for Ethics luncheon at Bartolotta Catering at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee beginning at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 15, 2019.
A project to clean up and restore one of the most significant landmarks along the waterfront of New Bedford, Massachusetts, has been recognized for engineering excellence by the American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA). The annual ACEC/MA Engineering Excellence Awards recognize engineering achievements demonstrating the highest degree of merit and ingenuity.
The BuildFax Housing Health Report revealed the fifth consecutive month of decreases across single-family housing authorizations, maintenance and remodel volumes on a national level in March 2019.
PuroClean, a leading national restoration and remediation franchise, recently received top awards from renowned franchise organizations, including Franchise Business Review, Franchise Times, Entrepreneur magazine and Franchise Direct. Each accolade is a testament to the company’s ongoing growth and achievements in franchise owner satisfaction, following a change in ownership just four years ago.
ICP Group, the foremost supplier of professional products and solutions for building envelope, cementitious and sports surface needs, has announced the hiring of Sara Jonas as director of marketing programs for the Building Solutions Group (BSG).
J.S. Held, a global consulting firm, announced today that it has acquired Veritox, Inc. and GT Engineering, a division of Veritox. Veritox (VTOX), a toxicology and industrial hygiene consulting firm with offices in Washington, Texas, South Carolina, and Florida, provides services in exposure assessment, industrial hygiene, human and environmental toxicology, forensic toxicology, and risk assessment.
The Cleaning Industry Research Institute (CIRI) is excited to announce that the 2019 CIRI Science Symposium will be held July 15-17 at Miami University in Oxford, OH. The theme for the 2019 symposium is “Connecting Research to Practice.”
Cortec announced that its product, MCI 2020, is being used to treat the steel and concrete of Krk Bridge, a reinforced concrete arch bridge connecting the Croatian island of Krk to the mainland and carrying over a million vehicles per year. Investigators discovered that salt accumulates on the surface of the reinforced concrete structure and chlorides penetrate through the protective layer of concrete to attack the reinforcement because of strong winds at the site.