CEC's Homeland Security Project May Lead to Advances in Decontainimation Technology

    CLEVELAND--May 27, 2003--Our security as a nation is threatened every day by bio-terrorism and chemical warfare attacks. Daily threats already exist from SARS, Mad Cow Disease, Staphylococci, Meningitis, and a host of other highly contagious and communicable diseases. CEC Consultants, Inc. has been retained by the Battelle Memorial Institute, on behalf of, the United States Army to develop and demonstrate a new decontamination technology that may allow emergency decontamination of buildings within the Government WMD Testing Program. CEC Consultants is an expert in the field of specialty ventilation systems and has won industry awards for cutting edge technologies related to its designs and innovations.
    This project will help to render military facilities less vulnerable in case of a terrorist attack, allow full working restoration of a contaminated building and protect the people and forensic evidence which may be inside at the time of an attack. These are the same goals of many commercial buildings and hospitals, which have been subject to numerous types of infectious agents by occupants and/or unintentional releases. The firm will be providing design, build, and demonstration services of this new technology at a former army chemical weapons base.
    The firm's decontamination technology could have far-reaching applications beyond the military decontamination efforts for SARS, Mad Cow Disease, Anthrax, Smallpox and various other pathogens. The technology also has promise for removing toxic substances from normal building materials that trigger allergies in persons with MCSS (multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome).

    CEC Consultants specializes in developing air quality, energy, ventilation, combustion and overall safety programs for Fortune 100 corporations. Over the last 20 years, CEC has completed hundreds of hands-on engineering studies and projects worldwide. We also offer combustion and gas-fired equipment related safety programs through Combustion Safety Inc., a division of CEC. For more information on CEC Consultants, Inc. visit www.cec-consultants.com or to learn more on Combustion Safety Inc, log on to www.combustionsafety.com