Environmental Consulting

Environmental Consulting

AEI serves a wide range of clients nationwide, providing strategies to evaluate and resolve complex environmental challenges. AEI’s environmental consulting services assist our clients in making informed business decisions by providing valuable information regarding potential environmental liabilities. Assessments are designed to meet the client’s needs, ranging from due diligence for real estate management and transactions to ensuring compliance with federal, state and local environmental regulations.

Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESA)
Phase I ESAs are an integral part of the due diligence and decision-making process for lending and property purchase decisions. A Phase I ESA includes a site visit and a historical and regulatory review that is designed to identify environmental issues such as current and historic environmental conditions that may affect property values, pose a financial liability to the purchaser or lender, or affect the ability of a borrower to repay a loan obligation. Clients may also obtain a Phase I ESA in order to satisfy requirements of the "innocent landowner defense" or other available defenses to environmental liability under CERCLA.

AEI’s Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) meets the most current ASTM Standard for Phase I ESAs, and involves the following activities:

• Site inspection
• Adjacent/ surrounding reconnaissance
• A review of historical documentation (i.e. fire insurance maps, city directories and aerial photographs)
• A review of hazardous material and petroleum product storage, spill and disposal records
• Local, regional and stateagency file review
• Interviews with theproperty owner, tenants and property managers
• A preparation of a reportdocumenting the findings, conclusions and recommendations
• Asbestos, lead and mold evaluation (on request)

AEI’s reports are designed to be clear and concise. Our Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) reports are an essential part to many commercial and industrial real estate transactions and are conducted in accordance with the most current ASTM E 1527 Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments.

Additions to our Phase I reports can include:

• Wetlands review
• Flood Zone
• Evaluation for mold, asbestos, lead-based paint, and/or radon
• Environmental lien search and Chain of Title review

AEI will also customize your Phase I report upon request. Some customizations include:

• Client-specific scopes of work
• Local and Government agencies / reviews
• Standard and Poor’s protocols
• Housing & Urban Development (HUD) requirements
• Small Business Administration (SBA) requirements
• Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae requirements

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Phase II Subsurface Investigation

When environmental due diligence goes beyond the scope of a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment, a Phase II Subsurface Investigation can be necessary to further evaluate the potential of contamination on your property. AEI provides Phase II Subsurface Investigations for clients nationwide. AEI’s professional geologists and

AEI’s Phase II Investigations may include:

• Soil and groundwatersampling and laboratory analysis for potentially harmful chemicals
• Sediment and surface water sampling and analysis
• Soil vapor and indoor air sampling and laboratory analysis
• Groundwater flow modeling and laboratory analysis
• • Drilling and sampling temporary bore holes
  • Installation and sampling monitoring wells
• Geophysical surveys
• Indoor-air vapor intrusion assessment
• Vapor encroachment assessment
• Contaminant source differentiation

Once the field investigation has been completed, a state-certified laboratory will conduct the sample analysis.

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Environmental Transaction Screen (ETS)