CEC's Homeland Security Project May Lead to Advances in Decontainimation Technology.Business Editors CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 2003 Our security as a nation is threatened every day by bio-terrorism and chemical warfare attacks. Daily threats already exist from SARS, Mad Cow Disease mad cow disease: see prion. mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) Fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Symptoms include behavioral changes (e.g. , Staphylococci, Meningitis, and a host of other highly contagious and communicable diseases. CEC (Central Electronic Complex) The set of hardware that defines a mainframe, which includes the CPU(s), memory, channels, controllers and power supplies included in the box. Some CECs, such as IBM's Multiprise 2000 and 3000, include data storage devices as well. Consultants, Inc. has been retained by the Battelle Memorial Institute The Battelle Memorial Institute is a private not-for-profit applied science and technology development company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. The institute opened in 1929 but traces its origins to the 1923 will of Ohio industrialist Gordon Battelle which provided for its , on behalf of, the United States Army United States Army Major branch of the U.S. military forces, charged with preserving peace and security and defending the nation. The first regular U.S. fighting force, the Continental Army, was organized by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1775, to supplement local to develop and demonstrate a new decontamination decontamination /de·con·tam·i·na·tion/ (de?kon-tam-i-na´shun) the freeing of a person or object of some contaminating substance, e.g., war gas, radioactive material, etc. de·con·tam·i·na·tion n. technology that may allow emergency decontamination of buildings within the Government WMD WMD white muscle disease. Testing Program. CEC Consultants is an expert in the field of specialty ventilation systems and has won industry awards for cutting edge technologies related to its designs and innovations. This project will help to render military facilities less vulnerable in case of a terrorist attack, allow full working restoration of a contaminated building and protect the people and forensic evidence which may be inside at the time of an attack. These are the same goals of many commercial buildings and hospitals, which have been subject to numerous types of infectious agents by occupants and/or unintentional releases. The firm will be providing design, build, and demonstration services of this new technology at a former army chemical weapons base. The firm's decontamination technology could have far-reaching applications beyond the military decontamination efforts for SARS, Mad Cow Disease, Anthrax, Smallpox and various other pathogens. The technology also has promise for removing toxic substances from normal building materials that trigger allergies in persons with MCSS (multiple chemical sensitivity multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), adverse physical reaction to certain chemicals in susceptible persons. When exposed to the chemicals, people with MCS react with symptoms such as nausea, headache, dizziness, fatigue, impaired memory, rash, and respiratory syndrome). CEC Consultants specializes in developing air quality, energy, ventilation, combustion and overall safety programs for Fortune 100 corporations. Over the last 20 years, CEC has completed hundreds of hands-on engineering studies and projects worldwide. We also offer combustion and gas-fired equipment related safety programs through Combustion Safety Inc., a division of CEC. For more information on CEC Consultants, Inc. visit www.cec-consultants.com or to learn more on Combustion Safety Inc, log on to www.combustionsafety.com |
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