Do you provide professional services for: Environmentally linked illnesses; Building design;  Engineering process control; Property development, sale or inspection; or Personal & product liability litigation?

  Are you a Doctor in need of ANALYSES of suspected TOXIC ENVIRONMENTS of your patients?

  Have PESTICIDE MISUSE suspicions?

  Need SCIENTIFIC FACTS and EXPERT WITNESS to handle a legal case?

  Do you have a need for a PILOT PLANT operator or designer assistance? 

  Want to know what a PROPERTY really is ENVIRONMENTALLY?

  Are you trying to sell or manage property with unknown or VILE looking substances?

Do you have: Environmentally linked illness & concerns for POOR INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (IEQ) & compliance of ASHRAE STANDARDS; Children with lost ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT or MADE SICK by a SCHOOL; PESTICIDE problems; School or private PROPERTY MANAGEMENT responsibilities?

  Are you an ORGAN TRANSPLANT recipient and need a home or work place found clean with SCIENTIFIC TESTS?

  Sick from a home's STRUCTURAL FLOOR?

  Want to know just how toxic a building or its location is and where to get a PLAN & DEFINING DATA to solve serious IEQ problems?

  Wonder if a finished building COMPLIES with the designer's or owner's plans?

  Did you recently realize Architects, builders, & building materials manufacturers sold us tight (sick) buildings, arsenic laced wood, asbestos, and lead paint & plumbing, while still ignoring mold & bacteria, radon and PRIOR to USE MONITORING?

  Need to MINIMIZE ALLERGIES and ILLNESSES in general without side effects?

Wish to REDUCE AGING by identifying & quantifying chronic, damaging environmental agents that are known to accelerate aging?

  Have tenant, teacher, or student IEQ COMPLAINTS or LITIGATION?

Do you: Own, manage, or insure CARGO in transit or write casualty insurance?

  Do you need to establish who's LIABLE & FROM WHAT with SCIENTIFIC ANALYSES of damaged cargo?

Would a `black box' to monitor SHIPPING DAMAGE LOSSES, as it happens, increase your PROFITS?

  Have an ODD or `fishy' looking but complex CLAIM that needs SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION?

Do you need: Field or power plant TROUBLE SHOOTING & LAB SUPPORT, monitoring, analyses, rescue, or compliance? Is it behind schedule, above budget, or with inadequate management or QC/QA?

  We can set up, and OPERATE FIELD LABS & train personnel in remote places, at difficult times, to free up your personnel.

Are your TECHNICAL PEOPLE what they claim? Our testing sorts the wheat from the chaff.

  We design & implement GREEN CHEMISTRY processes & technology to minimize manufacturing costs and enhance your workplace moral, productivity, & community image.

Are you seeking: Fascinating public speakers on emerging technology including nanotechnology; or very motivating talks for POLITICAL ACTION support or training?

We do not sell hardware nor remediation services as this is unethical, unprofessional and requires training professional Scientists do not have.

Do you need TECHNICAL TRANSLATIONS in English, German, Arabic, or Spanish? We also review articles with technical content for Scientific accuracy.

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This heavily documented and referenced web brochure (see links & references in `Contact Us') describes small scale affordable, professional, scientific services from older, experienced discreet Scientists and Engineers, with serious degrees from real universities. We provide quality trouble shooting complex problems with forensic grade data, for industry, government and private property owners. Over decades, we have traveled far and wide to provide diverse services from Waterloo, Belgium, to Kona, Hawaii, and many, many places in between. When needed, we select other professional Engineers, Scientists, and Technicians with complementary trouble shooting expertise. This applies to engineering systems for industry. We provide services for small, residential projects at the same rate as large. No job is too small. Often we provide free advice to get folks pointed in the right direction so they can reach their goals efficiently.

Our services fall into several broad categories that enhance health, productivity, & morale; save energy, money, & time; while minimizing litigation risks, and maximizing profits. Our services include: Environmental optimization (looking for insults no one else cares about); contamination assessment, field work (monitoring), very discreet meth lab prediction & assessment from public places that precludes government knowledge and intervention and saves big money, process control & testing, including quality control & quality assurance (QC/QA), and arson investigation review, usually in marginally served rural settings. Our Industrial Hygiene (I.H.) optimization services, for homes, schools and work places, are for folks who prefer to die of natural causes, with peace and dignity in their own beds.

Gregory K. Marsh, Forensic Chemist, P.I.H.* Greg Marsh has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and over six years of additional, relevant, formal education in: Monitoring methods development and instrumentation; quality control/quality assurance; Gas Chromatography; regulations and enforcement policies. On a practical basis, this is substantially more than required in a Masters' degree program. When working outdoors he is called Professional Industrial Hygienist (P.I.H.)*, when working indoors; and an analytical, quality control, instrumental Chemist when trouble shooting industrial process problems. In his early career years he practiced wet chemical and wrote methods of instrumental analyses by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, etc., in industry, power plants, and government research for manufacturing, process efficiency, and the Clean Water Act. Today, he has a small, new team of traveling, Professional Scientists providing a broad range of discreet, affordable, quality, scientifically and statistically valid Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), environmental optimization, contamination assessment and process control services to individuals, companies, and organizations in commerce, government, industry, academia, medicine, and the private sector. He encourages clients to think `outside the box' - way outside the box, with tools to create the buildings of the future!

Marsh was one of about three dozen citizen activists who shut down the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant SuperFund Mega-Site. He sat on the Citizens' Soil Sampling Committee from the beginning. This took him 19 years and was more than equivalent to a degree in psychology & public relations! He never took a bribe. The third and last time he was thanked was by Richard Lamm, Governor of Colorado. The big issue now? A Colorado State health department initiative to create missing OSHA regulations that all but disappeared in the middle 1990s that now fail to address the 700,000 Americans who die prematurely each year of preventable workplace injuries and those who live (and die prematurely)downwind of regulated workplaces.

He has additionally practiced over 30 years as a professional in forensic, environmental, instrumental, analytical chemistry, including major QC/QA support in a toxicology research lab for Clean Water Act discharge standards development; was a major contributor for a very large, peer reviewed study of the biological basis for metals standards in the Clean Water Act; co-developer of methods of analyses by atomic absorption spectroscopy: consultant in forensic chemistry & de facto industrial hygienist & safety officer on big radiotoxic waste sites; lab management, the first Chemist in 137 years in a 2.2 Giga Watt, coal and oil fired Ohio River power plant complex; greatly enhanced a fast, cheap, accurate chemical based breath alcohol detector; engineering support/process control, field lab design, implementation & oversight of a large scale, exotic, geothermal pilot power plant; monitoring & management of chemical weapons and the development of a safe & non polluting method of destroying chemical weapons, U.S. Army; wrote a major proposal and outline for a 'Clean Soils Act' to complement the CWA & CAA, U.S. E.P.A.; and prevailing litigation support with smashing victories over lies, duplicity, and deceit by the guy who literally 'wrote the book on arson residue analyses for A.S.T.M. These required extensive experience in instrument selection, health & safety management, data evaluation & reduction, risk minimization, toxicology & epidemiology, pollution laws application, forensics, public speaking and teaching in science & computer technology, and public relations. He regularly attends the National Solar Home Tour by National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the World Affairs Council in Boulder, CO. See: www.colorado.edu/CWA.

*=Compliant with Tennessee Code 62-40-101.

Marsh built the firm in its present form in 1985, on research services he started providing in 1968 thru 1973 as a research chemist of the U.S. E.P.A. & its forerunner, formed in December, 1970. Later, as a `job shopper', he provided similar services near and far on very diverse projects. The use of our services is driven by annual losses of $ 60,000,000,000 (Sixty Thousand Million Dollars!) throughout the American business community from lost worker efficiency, sickness, and broken computers<sup>25</sup>. This study found that an expenditure of only $ 5,000,000,000 per year for the next 20 years would eliminate this colossal loss. Another major project source are American schools, which are a disaster<sup>10</sup> and one of our specialties. Implementation of our school building findings has greatly improved student academic and athletic performance, and added years to the lives of many teachers. For folks with `Multiple Chemical Sensitivities', we provide the two of 62 most effective solutions, and major elements of 4 of the top 7 solutions listed in a 1995 study of 305 folks with `Multiple Chemical Sensitivities' (MCS) ²¹.

Professional Scientists are dying off; They have difficult educational requirements and the specter of a very poor return on their educational investment; off shoring; emasculated health, safety & environmental regulations; and the defunding of regulatory agencies that started big time in the early 1980s when they were labeled 'socialist'. When needed, we tap into a dwindling supply of complementary services from other mature Scientists, Engineers, and Professionals including SCUBA divers and translators in German, Spanish, and Arabic. We implement Geologists when knowledge of soils and rocks is needed. Be very wary when they claim the title of 'Certified Industrial Hygienist'. We all worked for big industry, government, academia and commerce over the years and found this wasn't for us. To make this situation even worse the vast majority of other Scientists do not like to travel and have regular jobs with the military, industrial complex as they are willing to sell out their morals. We completed our educations long before grade inflation, course level inflation, and when students who didn't measure up were expelled - no ifs, ands, or buts!

We also provide industrial & environmental services for starting up manufacturing operations here and abroad. These would include: drinking and process water quality; industrial process monitoring; and energy recovery, generation, & efficiency. Technologies include: Latest solar & renewable energy methods; `green' chemistry solutions for fundamentally safe, clean, low cost manufacturing; laboratory rescue; and pollution prevention technologies that are a crucial part of ISO 14,000. We provide clients with shortcuts of U.S. technology from some of the worlds foremost research centers which are located in our neighborhood near Denver, which is also known as the `Second Silicon Valley'.

Two of our few competitors are National Jewish Health in Denver, and the Harvard School of Public Health. We all use the same independent labs that we know and trust for analyses, but as you suspect our fees are far less! Our biggest competitors are the big, expensive firms, with their yellow page ads, who pay big money to their legal staff to defend the indefensible. They routinely hire very young, inexperienced staffs of recent graduates (who look good on paper), their mistakes & oversights, and huge ethical problems from mixing assessment with remediation. Some have so little expertise they use check sheets! Run for your life! Fortunately, many of these big time firms have disappeared by the score, leaving clients high and dry: See the partial list in the 'Advantages' tab above. We pass on these huge savings to our clients.

Dr. Francis Clough, Physical Chemist. Dr. Clough, of Centennial, Wyoming, was a former Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Polytechnic and consultant with more than 45 years experience as a physical, inorganic, environmental Chemist. In 1981, after a long career as an outstanding Professor of Chemistry, he established Chemical Criteria, offering thermal analyses and ion chromatography for a variety of clients in industry, commerce and government.

Dr. Clough was the one to choose when a problem in Chemistry was too difficult to solve. He was never too busy to assist or answer difficult questions. He was an avid, long term birder, the pesticide chair of the National Audubon Society, and deeply involved in the Rocky Mountain Arsenal monitoring & clean up, without compensation nor appreciation from regulatory agencies. With very little help, for many, many years; he tirelessly hammered the State Legislature, who were deep in the pockets of the pesticide industry, the polluters, and the military, industrial, religious complex; to regulate pesticide applicators. In the end he succeeded very well indeed.

Very, very, sadly he passed away in his sleep, undiscovered, Memorial Day weekend, 2000, surrounded by his bird books. We just don't have the heart to remove him from this site. This friend and colleague is our forth great loss in 20 years.

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