AKT Peerless Environmental Services services

Compliance and permitting solutions for complex state and federal environmental regulations. We reduce our clients’ risk of costly environmental remediation or regulatory enforcement by coordinating and managing environmental permitting and compliance programs.

Fuel tank management and compliance consulting for AST/UST owners and operators. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and State regulatory agencies have strict underground and above ground storage tank (USTs and ASTs) management requirements. Registrations, insurance and content monitoring are routine challenges. AKT Peerless has the experience and staff to comply with these varying States’ requirements.

State of the art data collection methods and analysis techniques for distressed properties. Site characterization is necessary to evaluate the existence of subsurface contamination or to define the extent of known contamination. Our staff excels in a broad range of subsurface and hydrogeologic investigation activities.

Filling gaps in the credit industry by identifying financial incentives and structuring economic development packages to help projects to get off the ground. We offer a number of Financial Incentive and Project Packaging services for a wide variety of incentives available for your business, community or project. Often we only need to fill a gap in the credit industry by identifying financing ranging from a few thousand dollars to many millions of dollars through our service programs.

Holistic approaches to spur private development activity and investment on underperforming and underutilized sites. Complex hurdles hindering redevelopment of property surround Brownfield and tax reverted land. These hurdles create fear and uncertainty that become costly and time-consuming, so these sites languish, hindering economic and community development. Brownfield and tax reverted land redevelopment require professionals that understand the environmental and non-environmental conditions affecting a property.

Leveraging financial and political resources for your community to develop a larger toolbox for business attraction or retention. In today’s extremely competitive market for attracting and retaining jobs, economic development organizations with the best resources are simply the organizations that are most successful.  Financial and political resources need to be leveraged to generate larger toolbox for promoting their regions and delivering the necessary incentives when needed to compete with other States or areas.

Comprehensive review of construction documents prior to loan closure. Construction Analysis provides a degree of validation and certainty for the lender that the project is accurately estimated and can be constructed within the proposed budget and schedule.

Periodic review of payment applications for ongoing construction projects. AKT Peerless performs periodic site inspections of ongoing construction projects to ensure each project complies with the loan documents and project specifications. As part of the site inspection process, AKT Peerless also evaluates construction progress and certifies that progress has been achieved to the point indicated on the Application for Payment issued by the general contractor.

Cost estimates for troubled and partially completed commercial construction projects. The Cost to Complete Analysis is performed by AKT Peerless engineers to assess projects that become interrupted midstream in their construction, either by contractor non-performance or financial setbacks. The report is utilized by lenders in workout scenarios and foreclosure proceedings.