Getting the job done.

Tropical depression Ernesto may have lost some of his punch by the time it struck Virginia’s Tidewater area on Labor Day weekend in 2006, but the storm still managed to leave its mark.

As hundreds of thousands of residents coped with the loss of power, hundreds of residents of the Paula Maria Apartments in Newport News found themselves homeless. Severely damaged by the high winds and heavy rain, 50 of the complex’s 100 units were condemned by city officials, who ordered that the property’s management company, SHP Management, foot the bill to house and feed the displaced tenants.

SHP needed action fast. As the company soon discovered, it made right decision by calling Advanced Restoration Services, Inc. (ARSI).

Within hours, ASRI already had called in industrial hygienists to sample the contaminated floodwaters, packed and stored residents’ belongings, removed building materials, installed power generators and large dumpsters, and dispatched hundreds of pieces of drying and air quality-control equipment. And in just five days, even though ARSI was responding to nearly 100 other emergencies in Virginia and North Carolina, ARSI had readied the site for reconstruction.

“The property is so clean that if you didn’t know there was a flood then you never would,” SHP Management commented, astonished at the rapid response. ARSI took it in stride. After all, getting the job done is what ARSI does.