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Our 10-year team of specialists will take care of all your building clean-up needs.
Our 10-year team of specialists will take care of all your building clean-up needs.
YOUR CLEANUP SPECIALISTS
Our areas of operation
- Geneva
- Chêne-Bourg
- Cologny
- Plainpalais
- Les Eaux-Vives
- Carouge
- Le Grand-Saconnex
- Lancy
- Onex
- Meyrin
Carrying out your hazardous substance diagnosis in Geneva
Are you planning to renovate your property?
Make sure you comply with CFST directive 6503, which stipulates that “all buildings constructed before 1991 must undergo an asbestos and PCB diagnosis before renovation, to ensure the safety of the site’s occupants”.
Bertolit has been certified in this field for 10 years, and can provide you with your diagnosis of hazardous substances (asbestos, lead, PCB) in record time.
Your Covid 19 disinfection company
Following the Covid 19 pandemic, Bertolit launched a new sector to limit the risk of propagation of the Covid 19 virus, consisting of disinfecting the common areas of over 200 buildings in the Canton of Geneva by 2020.
Emergency decontamination in Geneva
Do you have a leak problem in your building or apartment and need to break up a courtyard because of the potential presence of asbestos in the glue used for your tiles or earthenware?
Bertolit assists sanitary contractors with emergency interventions all year round, including public holidays, nights and weekends, to ensure the safety of site occupants in the face of asbestos-related risks.
Asbestos removal company in Geneva
Bertolit has been certified in asbestos removal for 11 years, and has a team of specialists who work in complete safety on all types of asbestos-containing materials: glue for earthenware, tile glue, paving slab glue, parquet glue, façade plaster, false ceilings and insulation.
Our work complies with current standards and regulations, and is monitored by the relevant public authorities.
PCB paint and gasket removal
PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) have often been added to expansion joints, seals, paints, varnishes, coatings, waterproofing and corrosion-resistant coatings to ensure their long-term elasticity.
Bertolit specializes in the removal of these PCB-containing materials.
Intervention on lead-containing paint in Geneva
To provide a complete service to its customers, BERTOLIT has trained its painters to work safely on lead-containing paint.
As a result, BERTOLIT is qualified to remediate leaded paint and then reapply environmentally-friendly paints.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DECONTAMINATION WORK
WHAT DOES DEPOLLUTION MEAN?
This is the act of diagnosing and remediating materials containing hazardous substances (asbestos, lead, PCBs) in a building. Here are some key dates:
- 1975 ban on PCBs in gaskets
- 1986 ban on PCBs in electrical equipment
- 1990 ban on asbestos
- 2005 ban on lead in paint
In the case of renovation work, it is compulsory for all buildings constructed before these dates to be diagnosed as containing hazardous substances. Depending on the diagnosis, a specialist company must then carry out the decontamination.
WHAT TYPES OF POLLUTION CLEAN-UP ARE THERE?
The various types of remediation can be applied to all the pollutants listed below: Asbestos, lead, PCBs, PAHs and HBCDs. For the purposes of this question, we will concentrate on asbestos. Some remediation is carried out ‘under containment’ and others ‘at source’. It all depends on whether the material is friable (FA) or not (NFA). Friable asbestos (such as flocking or spiked tile adhesive) is highly dangerous because the asbestos particles are suspended in the air and can therefore be inhaled by humans. Non-friable asbestos, on the other hand, is not dangerous if the asbestos-containing material is not touched or damaged. The correct process must be studied and estimated by a specialised, certified company before any renovation work is carried out.
WHY CARRY OUT DECONTAMINATION WORK?
It is not only an obligation(see CFST n°6503) but also a duty to protect workers and occupants of inhabited sites.
Pollution control is one of the new building trades that needs to be taken seriously.
Failure to clean up a building can have serious consequences, and in addition to the health risks involved, the building owner can be fined up to 400,000 euros for failure to comply with current standards and regulations.
See guidelines: https: //www.ge.ch/document/directives-amiante
