Glossary
Project Designer
Also: Asbestos Project Designer
An AHERA-accredited professional who designs asbestos abatement projects — containment, work practices, and clearance criteria. Many states require one for larger jobs.
A project designer is an AHERA-accredited professional who designs the abatement project: the containment layout, the negative-air and decontamination setup, the work practices, the air-monitoring plan, and the clearance criteria.
The discipline comes out of AHERA’s model accreditation plan for school work, but many states extend the requirement to public and commercial buildings and to projects above a size threshold. The designer’s specification is what the abatement contractor then executes.
It is a distinct accreditation from the asbestos inspector and the management planner, though one person may hold more than one.