The compliance firm Michigan contractors call before the renovation starts.
ECT is an EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm led by an EPA Certified Renovator. General contractors in Michigan working pre-1978 housing hire us to handle the lead-impact portion of the job. We arrive before your crew, build containment, train your team, monitor on-site, clean up the lead-impact zone at end of day, and email a compliance packet within 24 hours. Certified for purposes of TSCA § 402. Cert verification available on request or via EPA's public certified-firm search.
We're based in Manchester, Michigan, and serve Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Kent, Washtenaw, Kalamazoo, Ingham, Livingston, Jackson, Calhoun, Monroe, Lenawee, Eaton, Ionia, Barry, Gratiot counties — approximately 1.8 million pre-1978 housing units across our footprint.
EPA certifications listed for purposes of TSCA § 402 only. Verify via EPA's certified-firm search.
- EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm
- NAT-F334542-1
- EPA Certified Renovator (individual)
- R-I-99273-26-01409
- Firm cert valid through
- 2031-05-21
- Renovator cert valid through
- 2031-04-29
- OSHA training certification
- Maintained
- OSHA Lead Compliance Plans
- Drafted for client jobsites
- MIOSHA Part 603 — Lead-in-Construction
- Plans drafted to MI standard
- BRAG Ann Arbor
- Member
- Founder
- Andrae Washington
- Service
- U.S. Army Veteran
- General Liability
- $1M / $2M (Homeland Insurance NY, A+ AM Best)
- Contractors Pollution Liability
- $1M / $2M (lead paint covered; asbestos excluded)
- Professional Services Liability
- $1M / $2M claims-made
- Insurance broker
- RSG Specialty
- Base
- Manchester, MI
Credentials In Process
What we're building toward.
ECT is in active credential acquisition through 2026. Each credential below is in process with the named regulator. Status disclosure here is exactly that — credential infrastructure under construction. The matching service line activates the day the credential issues, in a single same-day site update.
Michigan Secretary of State
Michigan Notary Public Commission
Bond secured; paperwork filing with Washtenaw County Clerk
Anticipated: Late June / early July 2026
LARA
Michigan M&A House Wrecking License
Coursework complete; awaiting state approval to schedule exam
Anticipated: Summer 2026
Credential disclosure is not a service offering. ECT will not perform or advise on any regulated activity until the underlying credential is active. When a credential issues, the matching service appears in /services the same day.
Founder
Built by an integrated operator.
Andrae Washington is the founder and principal of Environmental Compliance Technical. The structural moat is not any single credential — it is the integration of them. A U.S. Army Civil Affairs veteran with a Juris Doctor, an NYU performance-theory background, a University of Michigan anthropology degree, and eight years of GTM operations leadership at Amplitude (NASDAQ: AMPL) — every layer of the educational and professional trajectory composes into the same business.
Civil Affairs supplies the stakeholder-coordination doctrine. The J.D. supplies the regulatory and contract layer. Performance theory supplies the operational design. Anthropology supplies the evidentiary discipline. The GTM operations layer instruments the growth motion. ECT is built AI-native from launch — AI is operational infrastructure, never the product.
No single credential outweighs the others. The flywheel is the point.
Military / Operational Doctrine
U.S. Army Civil Affairs Veteran
Civil Affairs is the Army branch responsible for restoring civilian function in environments damaged by conflict, disaster, or systemic failure. The training is the operational doctrine ECT applies to multi-stakeholder coordination, infrastructure restoration, and the documentation discipline that survives federal audit.
Legal / Regulatory
Juris Doctor
Reading CFRs accurately, structuring service agreements, evaluating insurance policy language, navigating indemnification, and analyzing regulatory and lobbying landscapes. The J.D. is not dormant — compliance consulting is the J.D. applied to a regulated domain.
Organizational Design
M.A. Performance Theory — NYU
Framework for understanding the conditions under which sustained human performance becomes possible at scale. Drives ECT's operational discipline around documentation, project structure, and decision rights.
Field Methods
B.A. Anthropology — University of Michigan
Field methods, material culture analysis, historical reconstruction from physical evidence, and the evidentiary discipline of environmental forensic work. Informs the Identification phase of every renovation project ECT touches.
Federal Policy
Former U.S. Senate Clerk — Office of Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
Direct experience inside the federal legislative process. Knowledge of how environmental statutes are drafted, amended, and enforced — and of how congressional staff dynamics shape regulatory direction over time.
Coalition Building
Election & Campaign Management — Fordham University
Coalition-building methodology, stakeholder mapping, and narrative discipline. Applied to GC relationship development, partner network building, and the trust-building required for multi-stakeholder environmental work.
Operational Scaling
8 Years GTM Operations Leadership in B2B SaaS
Scaled a SaaS line from $9M to $18M+ ARR over three years at Amplitude (NASDAQ: AMPL). The pattern transfers to environmental services — find the next bottleneck, hire ahead of it, repeat.
Federal Environmental Credentials
EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm & Renovator
Federal authority to perform regulated work under the EPA Renovation, Repair, and Painting Rule (40 CFR Part 745, Subpart E) on pre-1978 residential properties. Active credentials authorizing all current operations.
Why we built ECT
EPA RRP enforcement keeps tightening. Every pre-1978 renovation triggers documentation requirements that cost a typical GC three to four hundred dollars of crew time per job — when the work is even allowed under the firm's certifications at all. Most contractors react by skipping pre-1978 jobs entirely or by half-doing the compliance work and absorbing the $47,000-per-violation risk.
ECT exists so contractors don't have to choose between bidding the job and running the lead paperwork themselves. We handle the lead-safe compliance. You handle the build. Together, the renovation gets done compliantly and your crew never loses a morning.
A note on who we work with. Per 40 CFR § 745.81(a)(2)(ii), every RRP renovation in pre-1978 target housing or child-occupied facilities must be performed by an EPA-certified firm using a Certified Renovator. ECT can only subcontract for general contractors whose own firms are themselves EPA Lead-Safe Certified. If your firm isn't certified yet, read our blog post on how to get EPA Lead-Safe Certified — covers the individual Renovator track + the firm application, with the exact CFR sections and EPA portals we used to get certified ourselves.