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Service · Environmental

Find it before the closing.

Phase I and II assessments, soil and groundwater sampling, and asbestos, lead and air monitoring — the due diligence that determines whether a site is a liability or an opportunity.

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Assessment · sampling · monitoring

The Brief

Contamination does not appear on a survey. It appears in the sample.

Environmental risk stays invisible until someone tests for it — and by then it is either a manageable finding or a stop-work order. Lenders, buyers and agencies all require the same thing: a documented investigation performed to a recognized standard.

Universal performs environmental assessment and monitoring alongside its own drilling fleet and accredited laboratories, so subsurface sampling, analysis and interpretation stay inside one firm and one chain of custody.

Assessed. Sampled. Documented.

Capabilities

What we investigate.

Assessment, sampling and monitoring across property transactions, construction and building materials.

Phase I assessments

Records review, site reconnaissance and interviews to identify recognized environmental conditions.

ASTM E1527

Phase II investigations

Subsurface sampling of soil, groundwater and soil vapor to confirm or rule out suspected conditions.

ASTM E1903

Soil & groundwater sampling

Sampling programs run with our own rigs, under chain of custody to accredited analytical laboratories.

Drilling & laboratory

Asbestos surveys

Building material inspection, bulk sampling and abatement monitoring by licensed inspectors.

Licensed

Lead & hazardous materials

Lead-based paint inspection, risk assessment and hazardous building material screening.

Building materials

Air & perimeter monitoring

Dust, particulate and perimeter air monitoring during abatement, demolition and excavation.

Monitoring

Subsurface investigation

What the boring answers that a walkover cannot.

Records and reconnaissance stop at the ground. Below grade there is one way to know what is there and how far it has gone: drill it, sample it, and log every depth.

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What an environmental boring finds

Five layers, one release
Layer	What it tells the engineer

Environmental drilling, soil sampling and monitoring well installation by Universal Testing & Inspection Services, Inc. — West Babylon, NY · Miami, FL · est. 1992.

Deliverables

What the lender asks for.

PHASE I

Assessment report

A conforming assessment identifying recognized environmental conditions, or stating there are none.

PHASE II

Analytical findings

Laboratory results compared against the applicable regulatory standards, with findings stated plainly.

COC

Chain of custody

Documented handling from sample collection to laboratory receipt for every specimen.

SURVEY

Asbestos survey

Material inventory, sample results and quantities sufficient to scope abatement.

AIR

Monitoring logs

Daily perimeter and personal air results recorded through abatement or demolition.

Closure documentation

Regulatory filings and closure reports for well abandonment and remedial work.

How We Work

Records, samples, results, position.

Environmental work is a legal record before it is a technical one, so we build it that way.

Records & reconnaissance

Historical records, agency databases and a site walk establish what to look for before anything is sampled.

Sampling plan

A written plan sets sample locations, depths, analytes and standards, so results are defensible against a method.

Field sampling

Our own crews collect soil, groundwater and vapor samples under documented chain of custody.

Laboratory analysis

Samples are analyzed by accredited laboratories against the applicable regulatory criteria.

Interpretation & position

A licensed professional states what the results mean for the transaction, the permit or the construction sequence.

A finding disclosed early is a negotiation. The same finding discovered later is a claim.

Where to next

Buying, refinancing or breaking ground?

Send the address and the transaction timeline. We will confirm the appropriate scope and turnaround within one business day.

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