Asbestos and Lead Monitoring
Kadena Air Force Base, Japan

The Kadena Air Force base is located near Okinawa, Japan. Many of the buildings on base are old and contain asbestos and lead. Kadena tasked AERC with creating a database to house the inventory of buildings which contain both asbestos and lead. Kadena employees can access this database and use it to inform their decisions regarding building use and renovation. By making this information easily accessible and readily updated, the database creates a safer working environment for the staff of Kadena.

Project goals: Gather inventory of buildings known to have asbestos or lead, create a use-friendly database with constant feedback from USAF, and populate the database with collected data.

• This project was completed using UAA professors and student researchers.