Storm Damage Assessments

Storm Damage Assessments & Testing

Our Approach:

Preliminary Assessment


Listen and seek to understand your needs.

Prioritize & Develop a Plan


Prioritize your needs to develop an assessment plan specific to your needs.

Implement the Plan


Perform an IEQ assessment that will provide for your needs.

Provide Results


Provide the report and follow-up consultation to assure your needs are met.

What do our storm damage assessments include?

When a natural disaster strikes, it's important to understand the hazards associated with your home or office; after all, you can't remedy what you don't know. When dealing with known, suspect, or potential indoor environmental stressors (e.g., mold, contaminated water in building materials, and soot) after the storm, it is important to have an assessor who is competent, accredited, and who does not practice a conflict of interest. You get all of that and more with Gulf Coast IAQ. Our process includes:

  • Preliminary assessment(s) for background information. 
  • Determination of the presence and extent of the environmental stressors.
  • Determination of causal factors (causation) for the poor indoor environmental quality. 
  • Data-driven analysis.
  • Detailed reporting with annotated photographs, diagram(s), key findings, corrective action plan (i.e., protocol for remediation), resources, and much more. 
  • Utilization of college-educated, accredited, and certified professionals, utilizing state-of-the-art technology. 
  • Clear communication and post-reporting consultations.

What Sets Us Apart?

  1. No conflict-of-interest. One of the largest problems facing property owners and managers today has to do with fraud performed by various construction, restoration, and HVAC companies and public adjusters who perform their own indoor environmental quality assessments. Because Gulf Coast Center for Indoor Air Quality Services and all employees have no interests in other business or service ventures, you can trust the impartial, thorough, unbiased assessment services that you receive to be defensible and ethical.
  2. Communication and details. We believe in providing more than just a presence/absence report. We provide details that empower you through a process of remediation to successful conclusion. This cannot be accomplished with a cut-and-paste approach to indoor environmental quality assessment. Specificity is only provided when your needs are understood and the assessment is geared to address those concerns. Furthermore, our indoor environmental quality assessors are available to consult you after the assessment report is completed and, with your permission, can consult your contractors to aid in the successful remediation of your home or office.
  3. Qualifications and Protocols. Most indoor environmental quality assessors and industrial hygienists have no real world experience managing or performing remediation; they have no practical knowledge of remediation practices. As a result, they lack the ability to provide clear, comprehensive corrective action plans (i.e., protocols for remediation). This leads to conflicts, complications, limitations, even denial of insurance coverage due to poor performance on the assessor's part. Gulf Coast Center for Indoor Air Quality Services goes through an on-going peer-review process to remain accredited in indoor environmental and air quality remediation supervision. It's these qualifications that makes our protocols some of the best in the industry.
  4. Qualifications and Causation. Most indoor environmental quality assessors and industrial hygienists have no practical knowledge of building science; they either specialize in industrial safety and health management, environmental science, or have basic license required knowledge of mold assessment. As a result, they lack the ability to understand the causal factors (i.e., causation) for any indoor environmental quality problem found in your home or office. When this occurs and causation is ignored, remediation may be performed only to see the environmental stressors return, costing you unnecessarily. Gulf Coast Center for Indoor Air Quality Services goes through an on-going peer-review process to remain accredited in building science related to those dynamics that cause poor indoor environmental and air quality.
  5. Hazard and Risk Assessments. Most indoor environmental quality assessment companies perform hazard assessments to determine whether airborne contamination is present in a home or office. While this provides some useful information, sometimes more is necessary. For example, in some cases there are building occupants who are experiencing symptoms within a building that they rarely experience anywhere else, and there's a question whether poor indoor environmental quality is causing those symptoms. In such cases, a hazard assessment is not enough to answer their needs. With a background in occupational safety and health, Gulf Coast IAQ can work with your doctor by providing a risk assessment to aid in understanding the relationship between you and the indoor environmental quality in your building.

"Water damaged building materials breed not only mold, but also bacteria that can wreck your health. The air you breathe is so very very important.


"Jason has the credentials to win in court, equipment, and knowledge/ experience to diagnose building issues and make the best plan to have them fixed. Do NOT take advice from remediation companies. Hiring Jason will save you in the long run! He can make the best plan so you don’t get swindled into unnecessary work, or you don’t pay for incomplete work that just ends up doing nothing- or even worse, kicks up /spreads nasty pathogens without proper engineering controls containment."

Dr. Kristen Walton

Our team has worked with Jason on many projects. He is always very thorough and professional with his approach to handling industrial hygiene. He is a great asset to our company and clients during critical times.

Michael McDaniel, Project Director with FIRST ONSITE Property Restoration

"I cannot say enough good things about Jason. He took the time to explain our options and made our situation become manageable. After Jason's help I was confident in our path forward to getting our problem fixed."

Donn Koonce, Homeowner

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