Category Archives: Environmental

Penicillium Mold is a mold commonly found on home inspections. Building Specs provides environmental home inspections to detect and test for this mold, we also have partners that can remediate Penicillium Mold. A wide number of organisms belong to this genus. Identification to species is difficult. Often found in aerosol samples. Commonly found in soil,…

There are more than 160 different species of Aspergillus, 16 of which have been documented as etiological agents of human disease. The aspergilli are probably the most common group of fungi in our environment. Many species of the genus are frequently isolated from a variety of substrata, including forage products, grains, nuts, cotton, organic debris…

Building Specs home inspections has qualified inspectors to swab and test your home for mold. Considerable recent media attention has been focused on the mold Stachybotrys chartarum (atra), particularly in light a number of infant deaths in Cleveland from pulmonary hemosiderosis associated with extensive contamination of residences with this fungi. This coupled with the fact…

According to the EPA: "Radon is the 2nd leading cause of lung cancer." Test's are conducted using the state of the art EPERM, utilizing an Electret instead of charcoal canisters. Results can be obtained usually within 24 hours. Some offices may offer continuous monitors. Radon is a cancer-causing natural radioactive gas that you can’t see, smell…