As we say goodbye to 2024 and welcome 2025, we reflect on 2024 and how it has changed us. 2024 has been a good year for Future Environment Designs which helps to keep the business viable as we enter our 37th year in business. We are still working on a balance between the company and our personal life. Which at times can be so intertwined.
PACNY’s Holiday Meeting at Skaneateles, NY
Future Environment Designs is looking forward to 2025 as many of our clients have asked for initial courses in the coming year and we look forward to assisting them with their needs. We will continue to service the other areas of the State (such as Plattsburgh, Rochester, Syracuse, Hudson Valley, and Buffalo) looking for quality training. Thank you to all our clients for helping us maintain a 4.8 rating out of 5 for another year! Your positive feedback means a lot to us. If you’d like to share your experience, please visit our course reviews at CourseCheck. We look forward to continuing our work on the Professional Abatement Contractors of New York (PACNY) as a member of the Board of Directors (if reelected), event, and communications committees. In addition, some indoor air quality consulting work has also come through the door for the New Year we look forward to meeting those needs, too.
Rockefeller Centre, NYC
It will be interesting moving forward since this announcement means rules or regulations must be promulgated to mediate the risk. Especially with a new administration that is looking to reduce regulation. It will be interesting to see if we get another SNUR. See our post on the SNUR. Several items we hope will be addressed:
- a National Aggressive TEM Clearance requirement for all-size asbestos projects. Read my post regarding clearance.
- a reduction of the exposure limit for all asbestos workers. Remember EPA in Part One set an exposure limit of 0.005 f/cc for chlor-alkali workers. Read my post regarding Part One.
- in addition, a plan to replace phase contrast microscopy with a better method for evaluating worker exposures.
- Getting rid of the greater than 1% rule for asbestos-containing materials (ACM). Changing it to any percentage even trace amounts would eliminate some confusion between EPA and OSHA regulations.
- Coming up with a method for handling Libby-Amphibole Asbestos.
Bergdorf Goodman, NYC
Bryant Park, NYC
We look forward to seeing many of you in 2025 as we continue our journey together!
