AccuGuard Environmental unveils The Mobile Lab franchise

AccuGuard Environmental, an environmental testing company, Thursday announced the launch of its franchise offering. Franchisees will operate The Mobile Lab, an innovative van-based laboratory that will enable same-day on-site testing and analysis.

AccuGuard’s Mobile Lab streamlines testing for environmental hazards, like asbestos, lead, mold, and fire damage, by eliminating travel to and from a laboratory. In this way, The Mobile Lab reduces work downtime for restoration contractors, insurance carriers, and property owners, ensuring that testing doesn’t slow projects down or delay deadlines any more than necessary.

• 4-5 testing jobs per day can be completed using The Mobile Lab.
• Running the business requires just two dedicated employees – a sales professional and a trained analyst.
• The business can be done out of a home office, with no need for a traditional storefront.

“What’s so exciting about the AccuGuard model is that for 40 years, it’s always been that samples are picked up, driven to a lab, and the analyst stays at the brick-and-mortar location… but as we developed The Mobile Lab, we cut all of that turnaround time out,” said Ben Doebler, Founder and President of AccuGuard.

“One way that I always like to illustrate that is to think of this as your opportunity to have the full package by owning and operating an AccuGuard. Imagine a supercar that has all the bells and whistles. It has every creature comfort that you could imagine and all the horsepower that you could desire, but it’s on stone-age wheels.

No matter how good that technology is, if you don’t get traction, it’s hard to move that car. It’s true in restoration as well, which has seen so much innovation over the last 10 years. What hasn’t moved at all is testing.

By getting in early, you can become that contractor who has access to the full package.”

Before offering The Mobile Lab to franchisees, AccuGuard beta tested the concept in several markets with success. The mobile franchise is already resonating with insurance professionals around the country.

“For me, AccuGuard helps solve a problem in a way that should have been obvious from the very start: mobile laboratory testing with near-instant results helps our entire claims process move faster and better serve our policyholders in their greatest time of need,” said Brandon Iain, an Allstate Regional Performance Consultant based in Oregon.

“We are incredibly thankful for the work AccuGuard is doing to help shore up industry processes and bring the mitigation and restoration model into modern times.”