Followup: Mold Forces Cleanup Team's Hand at School in Austin, Texas

摘要

In April, the leader of a project team working to abate the mold and restore the Hill Elementary School estimated that about 75% of the 30-year-old building needed remediation. Within weeks, however, the project team and school officials agreed that their only recourse was to remove every ceiling and wall inside the 60,000-square-foot structure. David Cooper, project administrator for the Beck Group, the prime contractor leading the remediation project, tells IEQS there are two reasons for that decision. First, abatement specialists discovered more mold colonies in ceilings they hadn't examined before. Second, as the specialists removed those ceilings to check for additional contamination or to remediate mold they'd already found, they extensively damaged walls. Cooper says they couldn't avoid that damage because the original contractor had installed the ceilings first, then attached the wallboard to them - an atypical construction method.