Even with construction projects on-hold in a local school district, board directors approved for potentially-harmful fibers to be removed from two schools.
Armstrong School District board directors approved advertising for asbestos abatement within Ford City Jr. –Sr. High School and Kittanning Sr. High School – two schools which will possibly be renovated in the current construction plan – potentially this summer.
According to previous advertisements, asbestos removal at Ford City Jr. – Sr. High School is estimated to cost $350,000. The same work is to cost approximately $450,000 at Kittanning Sr. High School.
Directors previously advertised for bidders last month, but bids were not opened because it is unknown whether the construction projects will proceed. The projects are currently on-hold pending a Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) Act 34 public hearing at Elderton High School Thursday, April 28 at 7PM.
Asbestos abatement must be done before the construction projects can begin, but is not reimbursable through the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
Action to seek bids for both schools was passed 5-4 with Board Members Chris Choncek, James Rearic, Joseph Close and Steven Kozuch voting against the action.
Choncek explained why he voted to seek results from Thursday’s hearing on construction projects before deciding on the abatement.
“The state’s not sure, and everyone’s not sure if this is going to go through -that we’re going to get the reimbursement – so until that is determined from this Act 34 state-sponsored hearing, stop all the projects involved in this renovation because they would not be doing the asbestos abatement if it was not for the renovation project,” Choncek said.
Board directors have not discussed a contingency plan if construction plans are not approved by the state, which Choncek said might alter some board members’ plans.
“If we don’t get reimbursed and they don’t approve the project, obviously some of that stuff is going to have to change,” Choncek said.
According to PDE, Departmental approval of PlanCon Part F (construction documents) for a project does not guarantee reimbursement for that project. A project is deemed eligible for reimbursement only upon written Departmental approval of PlanCon Part G, Project Accounting Based on Bids.
Because the asbestos removal could potentially be done at a different time than the construction projects, Board Member Steven Kozuch said he is not in the board majority that approved the asbestos bidding.
“I have not backed the separation of the asbestos abatement from the project from Day One when it was first proposed,” Kozuch said. “I’m in favor of it being done, but I wasn’t in favor of it being separate from the rest of the project.”
L.R. Kimball architects will advertise for the asbestos removal three times before bids are opened.
Source : http://www.kittanningpaper.com/2011/04/26/school-board-directors-to-re-advertise-for-asbestos-removal/16362
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Asbestos Removal
After the presence of asbestos is inveterate by investigating, contractors are required by law to fulfill asbestos removal succeeding guidelines set onward by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at both verbalise and yankee dismantle. The requirements are in estimate to protect the workers, the community and the environs. Laws may variegate from express to province, but they are same in nature and often spartan in significance for contractors who prefer to handle them.
Package is an beta maneuver to an asbestos remotion process. The EPA requires particular paperwork including reports and scrutiny results be filed, and asbestos management bang a earn unit of domain from job situation to business to effort tract, dated and autographed by all parties as the matter changes safekeeping. Virtuous make keeping protects the business from ratified ramifications and keeps the EPA privy near Precautions staleness be assumed before documented asbestos contractors move an asbestos remotion, which may also be titled abatement. Working from the part out to minify exposure, workers thick windows, doors and ducts and dawdle off fans and heat or air conditioning to forestall circulation of scrap created by the treat of ending. Warning signs are posted to alarum passersby that the area is off-limits and potentially hazardous.
Specially drilled workers are required to endure tutelary equipment from direct to toe, including an authorized cover, handwear, and usable coveralls and scale covers. If feasible, the occupation country is wet using a mulct mister to keep junk particles in the air, and it is kept wet for the period of the job and the bagging of detritus.
Once preparations are perfect, workers statesman uncovering asbestos-containing relevant using techniques littlest probable to create scrap. In the onetime, walls and tiles were but pulverized and the junk shoveled into an yield container and carted off to the shitting. Today, workers cut metrical sections and urinate piles of detritus unconnected by touchable to be bagged and tagged in gift with EPA regulations. Cap tiles are lifted carefully out, and the grouting around room tiles is separate so the tiles can be damaged out with as slight crumbling as feasible.
Formerly separate, the rubbish is wet and stored in authorized containers for effort. Containers are required to be invulnerable. The lowest expensive and most vulgar method of containment is someone bagging using leak-proof impressionable bags at small 6mm thickened.
Once the asbestos substance is separate, the extent must be clean of dust. This may be established by micturition the extent and using mops or sponges to neaten or using a emptiness with a unscheduled HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filtrate to take all traces of dust.
The senior move is to bag up all the work-related materials equal mop heads and sponges, quality the throwaway aggregation weathered by the workers. These materials should be dosed in the synoptic path as the asbestos relevant: stamped in leak-proof containers, tagged and dispatched to a registered direction artefact.
Erstwhile the job is realized, air calibre testing should be performed to secure that the air is riskless and breathable before the chance is unsealed, the air circulation equipment is returned to delivery and people are allowed to proceeds without cautionary accommodate.
Package is an beta maneuver to an asbestos remotion process. The EPA requires particular paperwork including reports and scrutiny results be filed, and asbestos management bang a earn unit of domain from job situation to business to effort tract, dated and autographed by all parties as the matter changes safekeeping. Virtuous make keeping protects the business from ratified ramifications and keeps the EPA privy near Precautions staleness be assumed before documented asbestos contractors move an asbestos remotion, which may also be titled abatement. Working from the part out to minify exposure, workers thick windows, doors and ducts and dawdle off fans and heat or air conditioning to forestall circulation of scrap created by the treat of ending. Warning signs are posted to alarum passersby that the area is off-limits and potentially hazardous.
Specially drilled workers are required to endure tutelary equipment from direct to toe, including an authorized cover, handwear, and usable coveralls and scale covers. If feasible, the occupation country is wet using a mulct mister to keep junk particles in the air, and it is kept wet for the period of the job and the bagging of detritus.
Once preparations are perfect, workers statesman uncovering asbestos-containing relevant using techniques littlest probable to create scrap. In the onetime, walls and tiles were but pulverized and the junk shoveled into an yield container and carted off to the shitting. Today, workers cut metrical sections and urinate piles of detritus unconnected by touchable to be bagged and tagged in gift with EPA regulations. Cap tiles are lifted carefully out, and the grouting around room tiles is separate so the tiles can be damaged out with as slight crumbling as feasible.
Formerly separate, the rubbish is wet and stored in authorized containers for effort. Containers are required to be invulnerable. The lowest expensive and most vulgar method of containment is someone bagging using leak-proof impressionable bags at small 6mm thickened.
Once the asbestos substance is separate, the extent must be clean of dust. This may be established by micturition the extent and using mops or sponges to neaten or using a emptiness with a unscheduled HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filtrate to take all traces of dust.
The senior move is to bag up all the work-related materials equal mop heads and sponges, quality the throwaway aggregation weathered by the workers. These materials should be dosed in the synoptic path as the asbestos relevant: stamped in leak-proof containers, tagged and dispatched to a registered direction artefact.
Erstwhile the job is realized, air calibre testing should be performed to secure that the air is riskless and breathable before the chance is unsealed, the air circulation equipment is returned to delivery and people are allowed to proceeds without cautionary accommodate.
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