Asbestos Stop Work Order Removal for White Plains Owners and GCs

Geography first: this is for jobs inside New York City. DEP posts asbestos stop work orders in the five boroughs, never in White Plains or any other Westchester town. Plenty of owners, landlords and builders who live or work up here have property and projects down there, though, and once a DEP inspector tapes an order to the door, everything halts. Orders tend to follow asbestos getting disturbed without the right paperwork or controls in place. Perhaps a crew opened a wall nobody surveyed. Perhaps flooring came up before anything was filed. Whatever the cause, getting back to work usually takes the same ingredients: correct filings, a licensed contractor abating whatever was disturbed, air sampling while the work happens and after, and sign-off from DEP. No honest contractor can tell you how long that takes, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we can do is break the order down and handle it piece by piece in sequence. We read what the order says and see what got disturbed, figure out the filings, build an enclosure and clean the area up the right way, and line up the air sampling and records DEP expects. You know what is happening and why at each stage, and your GC knows what has to be done before the trades return.