Founded to Deliver What the Industry Was Failing to Provide
American Environmental and Construction Services, Inc. (AECS) was founded in 1997 to provide high quality, cost effective, safe and responsive environmental and construction services to government and commercial customers nationwide.
The company was founded by three very experienced executives from the remediation and construction industry in order to meet a recognized need for customer-oriented, cost effective services. The perception at the time — that providers had become too expensive and insufficiently customer-focused — drove the creation of AECS.
Our focus is to provide a select suite of remediation and construction services, represented by our core competencies, in the highest quality and most cost effective manner possible in meeting the specific needs and desires of our customers.
The corporate headquarters is in Alpharetta, Georgia, with a satellite office in Augusta, Georgia. AECS is a company without geographic boundaries, prepared to mobilize anywhere in the United States.
Founding Leadership
The AECS management team averages over 30 years of engineering and environmental corporate, program, and project management experience with immediate access to a full range of OSHA-trained technicians, equipment operators, and professional staff.
The AECS areas of expertise, which represent our core competencies, include:
- Cleaning, installation, and removal of pipelines, underground storage tanks (USTs), aboveground storage tanks (ASTs), oil/water separators, and compressed natural gas lines
- Hazardous waste site investigations, including Phase I and Phase II Investigations
- Identification and removal services for the total range of hazardous waste sites including drums, tanks, debris, soil, water, and lagoons
- Excavation, segregation, and removal of soils and sludges contaminated with volatile or semi-volatile organic compounds, heavy metals, pesticides, or PCBs
- Stabilization/fixation/solidification of contaminated soils and sludges
- Construction/installation of containment systems for contaminated soil and groundwater
- Decontamination, demolition, dismantling, and removal services for buildings and structures
- Installation, operation and maintenance of groundwater treatment systems including air sparging, soil vapor extraction, and stripping towers
- Installation of liner systems for fuel storage areas/tanks, landfills, tank farms, and other facilities
- Stream bank stabilization and armoring and stream relocation
- Soil and Groundwater sampling using Geoprobe Direct Push Technology (DPT)
- Stormwater runoff sampling, monitoring, and reporting
- Erosion control Best Management Practices installation, inspection, and repair
- Heavy Equipment Operational Support for any type of equipment or project
- Fuel Facility Inventory Control System and Tank Installation/Maintenance
- Management of other remediation services including lead, asbestos, ordnance (UXO), low level radioactive waste, and laboratory services
The mission of AECS is to satisfy our government and commercial customers' needs by providing them high quality, cost effective, safe, and responsive environmental and construction services while providing a fair return to our investors and stockholders.
Our philosophy of corporate operations is to provide excellence in all we do. We use a team approach, focused on working closely with each other and with our customers to meet your needs and fulfill your expectations.
We encourage and insist upon open and honest communication and total cooperation in execution of the highest quality work. We insist on the highest degree of honesty and integrity in all our dealings with each other, with our customers, and with our team members.
All that we say and do will be consistent with our personal and professional values defined in terms of our character, our attitudes, the qualities we exhibit, and the actions we take.
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| Character | We value the highest traits of character, personally and professionally, including integrity, loyalty, dependability, and selflessness. |
| Attitudes | We value a positive attitude distinguished by caring, pride, motivation, enthusiasm, commitment and a sense of humor. |
| Qualities | We value exemplary qualities in our work force and in our company, particularly competence, flexibility, excellence, quality, and professionalism. |
| Actions | We value actions that promote quality work in a cooperative spirit to accomplish our mission, take care of our people, and satisfy the needs of our customers — specifically: teamwork, customer orientation, responsiveness, accountability, communication, and valuing our diversity. |
The health and safety of all AECS employees, customers, and subcontractors is a vital and non-negotiable element of all our office and field activities. It is a primary goal of AECS to provide a work environment that is free from or protected against all recognized potential health and safety risks.
All work activities are executed in conformance with our comprehensive Corporate Health and Safety Program, and Site Specific Health and Safety Plans are required for each project work site. AECS personnel maintain a safe and healthy work environment through the application of corporate and site specific policies and procedures which are in conformance with the provisions of OSHA Regulations 29 CFR 1910 and 29 CFR 1926.
All AECS field personnel and management personnel have received the mandatory 40 hours of Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) training per 29 CFR 1910.120 and receive the annual 8 hour refresher training. AECS has an excellent safety record, with no recordable or reportable accidents since its incorporation in 1997.
At AECS, quality is a basic requirement in everything that we do. Our Quality Control Program has been developed to meet the stringent requirements of the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and we have management personnel who have attended the USACE course in quality control.
The AECS Quality Assurance Program (QAP) is designed to ensure that the services supplied by AECS meet the required standards of performance, reliability, validity, and quality, uncompromised by demands of cost and schedule. The QAP is applicable to every aspect of our remedial activities, including:
- Sampling and analytical testing
- Site operations and construction
- Remedial activities
- Data collection, evaluation, and analysis
- Calculations and design activities
- Submittals and reports
AECS has provided its services to a wide range of Federal, State and Local governmental agencies, Engineering Firms, and commercial clients:
AECS believes that a well-organized and effectively managed team is essential to ensuring that project objectives and requirements are met. Our project management approach provides the framework for organizing, directing, coordinating, controlling, and executing all project activities, including:
- Effective planning, communications, and partnering among team members
- Accurate cost estimating and scheduling
- Implementation of project cost and schedule controls
- Adherence to approved plans and specifications, QA/QC, and Health and Safety
- Continuous project documentation and timely project closure management
AECS is a strong advocate of the Partnering Process and seeks to partner all projects. Cost and schedule control are achieved through input of baseline information into our project control software, with real-time project tracking allowing managers to take immediate corrective measures as necessary.