Centek Laboratories, LLC

Centek Laboratories, LLC is focused on client services. To that end we maintain a substantial investment in superior instrumentation and advanced technology, allowing our professional team to provide quality, professional, accurate and timely services to our clients.

Using accepted EPA methods for compliance, Centek routinely identifies known and unknown VOC’s in air, liquid, soil and other matrices.

Centek prides itself on building customer loyalty through providing the best possible service. Our Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) has been designed and developed by chemists and project managers working in a commercial analytical laboratory, specializing in VOC analysis.

Our clients come from a broad cross-section of industrial, commercial, governmental and residential sectors.

Centek Laboratories, LLC Air Testing Laboratory has extensive experience sampling and analyzing a broad range of air contaminants including, but not limited to, Volatile Compounds, Air Toxics, and Hazardous Air Pollutants. In fact, Centek Laboratories, LLC opened it doors in 2003 working with New York State to develop and implement the NYSDOH Soil Vapor Intrusion Guidance. To this day, the NYSDOH Vapor Intrusion Guidance is regarded as one of the most recognized documents relevant to Vapor Intrusion Sampling and Analysis.

Centek Laboratories, LLC has the analytical expertise and project management capabilities to support a variety of soil vapor intrusion and indoor air investigations.

Centek offers specialized sampling programs to fit your projects budget and sampling / analytical goals.

• Soil Gas Vapor Intrusion Testing
• Indoor Air Vapor Intrusion Testing
• Ambient Air Testing
• Helium Leak Testing
• Soil Gas Tracers
• Appropriate Methods and Procedures

Subsurface Vapor Intrusion has become a topic of particular interest due to factors including:

• Increased recognition of Vapor Intrusion as an important exposure pathway
• Greater emphasis on the remediation of contaminated sites that introduce harmful substances into indoor air
• The recent publication of key state and federal Vapor Intrusion Guidance documents

Centek Laboratories, LLC is accredited by both NELAP to run EPA Method TO-15, as well as several other local, state, and federal programs. Most current guidance documents recommend the use of EPA Method TO-15. Contact the laboratory for our most up to date certification information.

Centek Laboratories, LLC are expert analysts of fuel hydrocarbons in air from gasoline, diesel, oil, mineral spirits, bunker fuel, jet fuel etc. and other specific compounds of concern. Specific target compounds for analysis include, but are not limited to benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes, fuel aromatics, fuel oxygenates (MTBE, ETBE, TAME, TBA, DIPE) and chlorinated solvents (PCE, TCE and their breakdown products such as vinyl chloride, 1,1-DCE and others). In addition to Centek’s TO-15 list is the ability to scan for over 170,000 additional hazardous compounds within the air matrix.

Our state-of-the-art instrumentation, in many cases, is specifically designed and modified by our technical staff to achieve low detection limits while maintaining the highest quality data for your Vapor Intrusion Projects. Centek Laboratories, LLC has experience working with large conglomerates, government agencies, as well as smaller private firms and homeowners.

LEED® Indoor Air Quality Testing

Per LEED® 2009 for New Construction and Major Renovations IEQ Credit 3.2: Construction Indoor Air Quality Plan—Before Occupancy OPTION 2. Air Testing

SIMPLE – COST EFFECTIVE – SUSTAINABLE LEED® Air-Sampling and Analytical Program

Upon researching air-sling programs available from other laboratories, the Centek Labs team of analysts and LEED® Certified Professionals aimed to utilize it’s unique capabilities to provide a program that is simple, cost effective, and environmentally friendly. After thorough research the Centek Labs team developed an air-sampling program using our specially treated whole air-sampling canisters and instrumentation while adhering to all requirements set for the by LEED® 2009 for New Construction and Major Renovations IEQ Credit 3.2: Construction Indoor Air Quality Plan—Before Occupancy OPTION 2. Air Testing.