ECCS | Mobile Lab | Capabilities

Mobile Labs | Capabilities

VOCs by GC and GC/MS (including EDB and 1,4-dioxane)

SVOCs by GC/MS (including alkylated PAH)

Pesticides by GC and HPLC

PCBs by GC (including PCB homologs by GC/MS)

Explosives by GC, HPLC, and LC/MS/MS

Metals by XRF, AA, and ICP/MS

Perchlorate by LC/MS/MS

Wet chemistry by various instrumentation

ECCS offers the most comprehensive mobile, onsite testing capabilities in the country. With more than 15 degreed scientists with an average of 15 years experience, 12 mobile labs, more than 1,000 projects completed to date, and travels to 25 states (and counting), ECCS is uniquely qualified to provide you thoughtful and experienced mobile laboratory services.

Not your typical mobile laboratory provider, we set the industry standard with our strict adherence to Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) and National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference (NELAC) accreditation.

ECCS mobile laboratories are each equipped with full-size instruments, including Hewlett Packard GC and GC/MS systems for volatile, PAH, pesticide, and PCB analysis; ICP/MS, AA, and XRF for metals analysis; and LC/MS/MS for perchlorate and explosives analysis. One of our primary differentiators is the fact that we are a debt-free organization that has an abundance of instruments, namely 60 GCs, 16 GC/MS systems, 6 HPLC systems, LC/MS/MS, 4 AA, ICP/MS, and XRF. What this means to you is that we often field redundant instruments to ensure uninterrupted service and maximum laboratory throughput.

ECCS conducts its mobile laboratory operations using one of two approaches:

For most of our work, ECCS utilizes one of its 12 mobile laboratories to conduct onsite testing. Four of the laboratories are pre-configured for volatile and semivolatile analysis, and can be mobilized to a job site in a matter of hours of being contracted. The remaining laboratories are custom-equipped to better meet the unique demands of the projects we encounter.
For more complex projects involving long-term work (i.e., greater than 2 months in duration), ECCS utilizes leased construction trailers that we retrofit in a matter of days into a fully-operational onsite laboratory. Using this approach, we are able to reduce overall projects costs even further while maximizing laboratory space and efficiency. Approximately 15 percent of the work ECCS conducts utilizes this approach.

To date, we have successfully performed at more than 1,000 sites including projects lasting from one day to multi-year efforts. Listed below are some of the advantages of choosing ECCS to support your important project.

ECCS MOBILE LABORATORY ADVANTAGES
þ	Defensible Results. ECCS offers certified, fully-defensible data in an onsite laboratory setting.
þ	Cost Savings. More often than you think, a mobile laboratory solution is more cost effective than utilizing an offsite (standard TAT) laboratory solution. Over 80 percent of the onsite testing performed by ECCS falls in the 0.75X to 1.5X "standard" laboratory TAT cost per sample.
þ	Faster Results. Onsite laboratory results in a matter of hours (preliminary) to no more than 1 day (final dry-weight corrected), offering you real-time information to make impactful project designs.
þ	Increased Resolution. Having an onsite laboratory gives you the flexibility to collect more data in areas that mean the most toward you goal of determining extent of contamination.
þ	Construction Crew Productivity. Real-time results allows you to increase the productivity of construction crews, e.g., excavation equipment. While this cost is difficult to quantify, it is a material cost savings that you will clearly assign value to once you utilize ECCS during remediation.
þ	Decreased Sample "Management" Costs. Utilizing an onsite laboratory significantly decreases the burden on your field crews in terms of sample management, tracking, packaging, and shipping. This cost, too, is difficult to quantify but again clearly a material cost savings.
þ	Our priority is YOUR Priority. Having an onsite, captive laboratory offers you unmatched control in terms of laboratory priorities. That is because we only have ONE priority, and that priority happens to match yours. Sample prioritization, access to key results quickly, and shifting resources from one test method to another, all are things that are at your immediate control.