Background
Luke Air Force base is located outside Phoenix, Arizona. The base consists of over 1200 buildings and 3.8 million square feet of building space. The structures include office buildings, maintenance facilities, hangars, laboratories, warehouses, and a variety of housing types.
The Problem
Organizing and storing documents and updating asbestos survey records as materials had been abated was a monumental task.The Asbestos Program Manager was regularly called upon to advise the housing office, base engineers, and maintenance personnel on the locations of asbestos containing materials and lead-based paint. The DOS vintage database and paper records were rarely up-to-date, and reports from a collection of different consultants were all in different formats with different organization schemes and levels of detail. Getting reliable information to the appropriate personnel and outside construction contractors often required rush survey activities to fill in the gaps or to clarify information in the files.
The Solution
The base purchased the ADAM System in 1999 and EcoLogic Systems imported all their pre-existing electronic records into the system. Then they proceeded on a multi-year reinspection of the base for asbestos and lead-based paint using a variety of consultants to enter pre-existing hard copy survey data and re-survey the buildings. The new survey data was entered by the consultants into the ADAM System.
The fully populated ADAM System enables the Asbestos and Lead Paint Program Manager to look up material locations, quantities, view digital photographs, and view CAD drawings showing sample an material locations.
As abatement projects occur, the database is updated to log the dates, and project scope. The Asbestos Program Manager can carry the entire base’s data on his Tablet PC and can update the database as he periodically re-inspects the buildings for changes in material conditions.
Nick Durflinger, Asbestos Program Manager for the facility writes: “I have been using ADAM since it was first developed and find it to be the most beneficial tracking tool that I have had the pleasure to use. The system is easy to use and can pull up information regarding the locations of asbestos and lead-based paint in the 1,200 buildings at our facility within seconds. As a result, the system has saved us countless man-hours we would have spent searching for information in file cabinets. The regulators have been very impressed with our system as well.”
