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| Welcome to Metro Environmental |
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In 1969, Metro Environmental started as a specialty cleaning service, offering a unique service involving the cleaning of coils in large HVAC systems for corporate and institutional clients in the Phoenix area.
As the founder's knowledge of clients' HVAC systems expanded, concerns regarding indoor air quality became an issue. Since there was no "indoor air quality" industry, clients couldn't find a listing of qualified people to address IAQ; hence, they turned to those who were already meeting their specialized needs. The established coil cleaning business began to expand into one that addressed corporate indoor air quality-related issues.
One of the more memorable projects of than 30 years ago involved investigating the potential cause for the death of a premature infant in a hospital. We were pleased that news of that quick resolution to "a sensitive IAQ problem" quickly reached other hospitals, alerting them to Metro Environmental's ability to quickly and confidentially resolve sensitive IAQ-related issues.
In the early 1970's, the news media began to talk about "sick building syndrome," and building engineers were beginning to worry about "tight building syndrome." Most of the media focus was on large buildings where frequent, vague and dissimilar complaints followed the need for energy savings. More frugal operation of the large HVAC systems was targeted by the Federal government as a method of reducing energy.
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