Background
Nellis Air Force Base consists of thousands of buildings in the Nevada desert. The base includes office buildings, hospitals, maintenance facilities, hangars, flight support, laboratories, warehouses, and a variety of housing types from single family homes to enlisted quarters. The buildings vary in age from the 1940's to present.
The Problem
There was an ever growing library of asbestos and lead-based paint survey reports with associated drawings. The base is responsible for long-term management of these records to comply with the Air Force’s health & safety program requirements.
Organizing and storing documents and updating survey records as materials have been abated had become a monumental task. The base also needed to share asbestos and lead-based paint information with maintenance, civil engineering, public health, and bio-environmental divisions, so they can look-up the locations of hazardous materials prior to performing maintenance and construction related activities in each building.
The Solution
To organize and manage their environmental information, Nellis purchased the ADAM Environmental Management software and had EcoLogic Systems import their existing electronic asbestos records into the system. The base entered their lead-based paint survey records, abatement records, drinking water samples and exposure monitoring results into the system.
In February of 2004, EcoLogic Systems successfully developed and delivered a GeoBase mapping module for their ADAM system. This is the first environmental data base that has been successfully linked to the Air Force’s GeoBase mapping system. With the graphical mapping front end by simply clicking on a building on a site plan, health and safety program managers and maintenance personnel are able to use ADAM’s web-based interface to perform view-only queries of all the environmental management data stored in the ADAM system.
The ADAM system now provides maintenance, civil engineering, public health, and bio-environmental personnel with quick and easy access to the environmental knowledge base for each building and helps them ensure that inadvertent disturbance of materials is avoided. It also helps them eliminate redundant sampling, and maintain compliance with Air Force environmental management regulations for recordkeeping and notification of required parties, such as outside contractors and base personnel who may disturb these materials.
