GES Environmental

GES Environmental is the outfit you call before the demolition crew swings a hammer — the one that tests for asbestos, lead and mold, then handles the abatement when samples come back hot. It works out of Main Street in Walpole, and says it covers renovation, restoration and insurance-claim projects across Greater Boston, Rhode Island and the rest of New England. The company tells its own origin story as a gap it noticed from the inside: a team with a disaster-restoration background kept running into builders and tradespeople who had no idea what state and federal asbestos rules asked of them, so it started with sampling and surveys and widened into broader environmental work from there. No founding year is given. Jennifer Gilmore is listed first on the Meet The Team page and is the named contact for outreach presentations. One credential here is confirmed rather than claimed. The Massachusetts Supplier Diversity Office lists the firm's Women Business Enterprise certification, number 20220176, as active through November 2028 — held of record by GES, LLC. The company separately says it also carries federal Women Owned Small Business certification from the SBA; that one is its own statement, not something checked against a registry. Customer voices are the thin part. A single five-star Google rating is the whole of its public customer history, and the Procore Construction Network page carrying the name is unclaimed and blank, listing one trade and nothing else. That is not a strike against the work — there simply isn't enough yet to judge how they run a job, which is why no rating is given here. If you have a pre-renovation asbestos survey or a mold problem in an older house, this is a reasonable call to make. Ask for references on jobs matching yours — similar building age, same contaminant, same scope — and get in writing which parts they sample and which they abate before anyone starts cutting.