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Lab’eau-air-sol offers efficient, professional services for all your environmental analysis needs. Whether for prevention or when a problem arises, we can suggest solutions to help you maintain a healthy home environment.
Good air quality and a safe working environment promote employee productivity. Lab’eau-air-sol offers solutions for assessing and managing all the factors impacting your working environment, and provides precise measurements of the parameters affecting your company’s air quality.
Detect the appearance of molds, fungi and diseases in your crops before the effects are visible and damage is too far advanced, using the spore identification method. To maximize your time and money, and reduce your impact on the environment, we now offer plant pathology monitoring and prevention services.
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Beyond the walls: the human and social impact of weeping merula
From disaster victim to megaphone: a journey marked by weeping merula Often, there’s the conviction that weeping merula only affects other people. That it only affects abandoned houses, cases of serious disrepair or insalubrity.Until, that is, it invites itself into your home. This is exactly what Marie-Hélène Cauchon, Director of Mérule Québec, experienced when she discovered that her own home was contaminated by this devastating fungus in 2014. An article entitled”Le cancer du bâtiment: le connaître et le combattre”is available on the Lab Eau-Air-Sol website for a better understanding of the problems associated with this fungus. In 2014, there is…
Building cancer: knowing it and fighting it
The weeping merula, scientifically known as Serpula lacrymans, is a wood-boring fungus nicknamed the cancer of the building industry. And this nickname is no exaggeration… Like cancer, merula is highly resilient and has an exceptional ability to spread. Weeping merula is a crust-growing fungus with filamentous structures called “syrrotes”, which give it an impressive robustness and capacity for expansion. Indeed, these thick mycelial cords can travel several meters through different materials in search of sources of water and nutrients. This mechanism is what makes it so special, enabling it to establish itself effectively in buildings. Weeping merula propagation phase The…