PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the course of several years, the United States had experienced rapid growth in the commercial and residential construction market. This construction boom, coupled with several destructive hurricanes that required extensive rebuilding activity, resulted in a dramatic shortage in domestic building materials including drywall. Construction companies turned to foreign sources of drywall. Due to its abundance and inexpensiveness, millions of pounds of Chinese manufactured drywall were imported into the U.S. to alleviate the drywall shortage. This imported Chinese drywall was manufactured using many different filler materials. One such filler material is fly ash, which is a byproduct of the industrial burning of high content sulfur coal. One or more volatile sulfur compounds can be retained in the fly ash and, thus, retained in the drywall. The drywall can emit gases containing sulfur-based contaminants. SabCo, Inc., a Palm Beach Gardens, Florida based environmental firm, under the direction of Ronald G. Huggins, MS, MPH, Ph.D., CIH, CIAQP, an expert in Indoor Air Quality, and is a certified expert in state and federal litigation cases for Indoor Air Quality and Toxicology, has developed a specific process, referred to as the RISS System(TM), to remove the toxic and corrosive compounds from the Indoor Air caused by gases being emitted by Chinese Drywall. This process is believed to be so unique and specialized that a patent application for this technology has been filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
