Many buildings start leaking immediately after construction or show signs of problems within the first five years. Water intrusion is one of the mail contributing factors to building damage, litigation, structural damage, rot termites and microbial problems that can lead to “Sick Building Syndrome”. For many, water leaks can be like a plague that just simply will not go away.  Over the last two and half decades, we have investigated … (Click for Facts on Water Intrusion).

As the result of the Subcommittee C11.01 Task Group meeting in Atlanta on November 10, 2009 a preliminary rough draft was submitted by Mulholland as a starting point for the work group. Due to the significance of the issue, the work item was approved for “Rapid Issuance” and could possibly be passed in the early part of 2010.

The task group members are reviewing the draft document and providing comments and suggestions to the protocol that is reviewed by the technical contact. Several drafts of the protocol are expected to be submitted that may go on to produce a final document which could be voted on by early spring. Spiderman Mulholland is a leading forensic expert on building envelope, water intrusion, toxic mold, and Chinese Drywall of U S Building Consultants, Inc. (USBCI). He has invested a lot of resources and time to help be a part of developing inspection and remediation protocols over the last year for the Building Envelope Science Institute. This ASTM effort has a diversified group with a lot of experience and we look forward to seeing this effort produce a standard for the inspection as it relates to corrosive problems associated with some Gypsum said Mulholland. We have a lot of good and some bad inspection methodologies that are being practiced out in the field. I believe we all need a standard to work from which should protect the public and prevent misdiagnosing of gypsum in homes and buildings. “This is really an important effort for this committee and will eventually help a lot of people,” says Mulholland.

To learn more about Spiderman S. Mulholland and USBCI, go online to www.usbcinc.com, or to arrange an interview, contact rebekka@usbcinc.com. Copyright © 2009 by US Building Consultants, Inc.  All rights reserved.

Drywall "Made in China"

Gainesville, FL – Spiderman S. Mulholland, a leading forensic expert on building envelope, water intrusion, toxic mold, and Chinese Drywall of U S Building Consultants, Inc., is scheduled to speak on Chinese Drywall at the Property Restoration Industry Conference being held at the Hyatt Regency in Miami, Florida. For more information on the conference you may go to the website www.insightsconference.com.

Mr. Mulholland has been in the remediation and the construction industry for over twenty years and has authored two national certification programs. Recently, Mr. Mulholland with the help of a workgroup called Defective Drywall in America (DDIA) and the Building Envelope Science Institute (BESI), have developed a cost effective protocol for inspection and remediation of homes affected by the Chinese drywall disaster. For more information about the defective drywall certification, go to www.BESInstitute.org.

To learn more about Spiderman Mulholland and USBCI, go online to www.usbcinc.com, or to arrange an interview, contact rebekka@usbcinc.com. Copyright © 2009 by US Building Consultants, Inc.  All rights reserved.

The meeting was a fourth in a series of meetings held by state Sens. A.G. Crowe and Julie Quinn to find out options and answers to the problem faced by people who have become sick, or have had to move out of their homes entirely, because of the presence of Chinese drywall. At this meeting, Crowe and Quinn brought along legal experts and scientists who tried to make the issue a bit clearer to the residents.

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