UPR Project

Champion Environmental Services, Inc. is prequalified by Union Pacific Railroad to perform asbestos abatement and demolition services across the United States. Only a handful of contractors can claim such competence – even fewer can boast of such a privileged partnership as we share with UPR.

Mobilization will begin in two weeks to abate a Chicago diesel test facility at North Pulaski and West Kinzie. The project involves the removal transite panels throughout the facility. The challenge for this project will be for our workers to maneuver aerial lifts around existing railroad tracks to gain clean access to the transit.

Marquette University

A photograph from our work at Marquette University published in the “Daily Reporter”.

The Building Material Reuse Association (BMRA) Conference “DECON '09”

Champion Environmental Services, Inc. will be making a presentation at The Building Material Reuse Association (BMRA) Conference “DECON '09” on April 29, 2009.

Terrence O’Rourke will be reporting on two successful large scale demolition projects in Wisconsin that yielded high recycling rates. The focus of the presentation will resolve some of the concerns of “demolition” versus “deconstruction” practices. Conference attendees will come to recognize that successful demolition practices employ deconstruction techniques.

The difference between demolition and deconstruction points to preconceived linguistic associations; deconstruction is a word which evokes a notion of a controlled, clean, more environmentally friendly approach to resolving old building material salvage whereas demolition suggests harsh imagery of reckless destruction.

Ultimately, conference attendees will understand that companies such as Champion Environmental Services, Inc., have acted as stewards of the environment long before movements toward green initiatives took hold in America.