Ottawa-based Quantum Murray LP (QMLP) is Canada’s leading full service environmental and decommissioning contractor offering services in demolition, scrap metal and salvage, hazardous materials abatement, remediation, waste management services, treatment of soil, water and other waste materials, as well as a full team of emergency responders.

The Western hemisphere’s rapid de-industrialization along with growing public awareness of environmental issues, tighter regulatory controls, and a concern over the effect that toxic materials have on human health, has focused attention on the safe decommissioning of former industrial and commercial sites. As Canada's leading demolition, environmental remediation and hazardous waste materials management company, QMLP provides crucial solutions to waste management issues. Founded in 1992 the company now employs 1000 people in offices across Canada.

QMLP Hazmat division provides proven expertise and a reputation for excellence in asbestos, lead, mercury and PCB abatement and disposal, as well as mould remediation. Quantum specializes in the safe and effective management of a wide range of contaminants found in commercial, residential, industrial and institutional buildings.

QMLP’s Demolition division provides turn-key demolition and decommissioning solutions throughout Canada.

The company is also recognized nationally as a leader in the clean-up and rehabilitation of commercial and industrial sites and facilities.

As part of its overall environmental remediation and hazardous waste management programs, Quantum operates several waste management facilities to treat and dispose of waste materials from a variety of commercial and industrial sites. Fully permitted, licensed and insured, each facility is carefully engineered and monitored to protect the surrounding environment, and meets or exceeds industry standards. Water treatment and hazardous emergency response round out the company’s services offerings.

Why Ottawa

Quantum’s CEO Jeff Westeinde is a big believer in Ottawa, the place many of his employees call home. Acknowledging that his company relies on high technology solutions to environmental problems, he serves on the Board of Directors for the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) – Ottawa's leading member-based economic development corporation for fostering the advancement of the region's globally competitive knowledge-based institutions and industries.

Jeff is also the partner responsible for brownfields development with Windmill Development Group – a real estate development company focused on commercializing green building practices that deliver a competitive advantage over traditional real estate models. A major part of Windmill's development model is the selection, remediation and development of brownfields sites in urban areas. Windmill was formed in 2002 through a corporate alliance of Westeinde Developments and Quantum.

Business advantage

Over the years, Quantum’s team has handled thousands of demolition and hazardous materials projects, ranging in scope from mould remediation and decontamination in single family homes in remote, First Nations' communities, to such diverse projects as the expansion and renovation of international airports and the removal of asbestos and other toxic materials from large shopping malls, hospitals and schools.

The company’s team of professional engineers and experts specializing in environmental remediation and site decontamination draw on the company’s extensive civil and geotechnical construction background to provide a full range of remediation services, from heavy civil and geotechnical applications, site de-commissioning, and the treatment of contaminated soil and water, to the removal of underground storage tanks. In each case, contaminated sites or facilities are made usable again.

Future growth plans

Quantum Murray continues to consolidate its leadership in the environmental and decommissioning sectors in Canada and is actively seeking international opportunities on its path to becoming one of the sector leaders in the world.

Contact information

Quantum Murray LP
+1-800-251-7773
www.quantummurray.com

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