Our Services

Why choose MSEI?

MSEI is proud to offer a quality service that allows its clients to conclude their files quickly and efficiently.

At MSEI, we implement a single approach to serve our customers, which is divided into three steps:

  • Establish a common understanding of the mandate and the problem.

  • Carry out a rigorous and independent scientific and technical analysis.

  • Submit a report written by experts and engaging their professional responsibility.

MSEI makes the following commitments to all our clients:

  • Provide detailed service offers;

  • Respect the commitments mentioned in our offers of services, in particular with regard to the budgetary evaluations;

  • Popularize and simplify the information obtained to facilitate understanding of the scientific elements;

  • Assist our clients through all the steps needed to resolve their cases;

  • Respect our clients by treating them with professionalism, courtesy and integrity;

  • Present a scientific report no later than six weeks after the end of the analyses;

  • Defend the conclusions of our reports with our clients, the disaster victims and the courts, if necessary;

  • Develop a long-term collaboration with them.

This is what we call a win-win result.

We offer our services to:

Insurers |  Claims experts | Lawyers | Industrials |  Private individuals

Depending on the damage

Our experts join forces when our clients face various damages which may require an immediate response, such as:

Health Damages

MSEI offers cutting-edge microbiology expertise to find the causes of bacterial, mould and fungal growth. Our chemists investigate and report on consumer goods, process chemistry, and food chemistry. They also work on files where industrial hygiene is at stake (for example asbestos).

Request for expertise

Environmental Damages

MSEI offers environmental assessment services, decontamination management, disposal recommendations for contaminated products and materials (including the management of petroleum hydrocarbon products and asbestos) as well as site rehabilitation and restoration.

Request for expertise

Building & Structural Damages

MSEI provides the services of civil engineers to determine the causes of construction failures, and develops the design and implementation of retaining walls, structural modeling and analysis as well as the evaluation of building envelopes, soils and foundations.

Request for expertise

Damages Linked to Fire & Explosions

Fire and explosion investigations require rigorous investigation and analysis. Our fire investigations help determine how and why a fire or explosion started, and whether it was accidental or intentional.

Request for expertise

Agricultural Damages

MSEI offers agronomy services to assess and quantify crop losses or other damage resulting from the use of pesticides, and from climatic, soils or fertilization problems. Our expertise also extend to the analysis of losses in animal production related to food or microbiology. Our experts also work on soil rehabilitation, waste management and composting.

Request for expertise

Damages Linked to Metallic & Non-metallic Materials

MSEI offers the services of its experts to determine the causes and origins of structural or mechanical failures, as well as to analyze material failures and corrosion. MSEI also provides industrial consultation and laboratory testing.

Request for expertise

Damages Linked to Mechanical Failures

When a “mechanical system” fails, the resulting damage can be extensive: loss of production, personal injury, flooding, and fire causing damage to property, to name a few. MSEI‘s experts master several technical disciplines, which allows them to investigate the origin and determine the cause of the breakage and bring the file to its conclusion, whether it is an industrial, commercial or residential case.

Request for expertise

According to the Expertise

MSEI offers a wide variety of scientific and engineering expertise through our knowledgeable experts working in close collaboration.

For many of our cases, our expertise goals are to establish the origin and causes of contaminations or defects,
or to scientifically explain the problematics brought up by our clients.

MSEI also offers remediation, management, work protocols and surveillance of cases involving environmental or other contaminations.

Chemistry & Related Sciences

  • Organic chemistry 
  • Inorganic chemistry 
  • Polymer chemistry 
  • Physical chemistry 
  • Chemical analysis 
  • Industrial processes 
  • Food chemistry (contamination) 
  • Etc. 
Request for expertise

Microbiology

  • Microbiology (moulds, fungi, bacteria)
  • Sampling (water, air and surface) and interpretation of results
  • Decontamination of the environment
  • Food
  • Processes
  • Etc.
Request for expertise

Environment

  • Environmental site assessment and characterisation
  • Environmental site clean-up and remediation
  • Site decontamination, rehabilitation and restoration
  • Hydrogeology and geology
  • Environmental monitoring and budget follow-up
  • Spill management
  • Sampling (water, air, soils)
  • Industrial hygiene
  • Biology
  • Tank removal
  • Asbestos, lead and pyrite removal
  • Toxic and radioactive substances
  • Technological assessment
  • Etc.
Request for expertise

Agronomy/chemistry

  • Soil science
  • Animal science
  • Plant science
  • Agricultural environment
  • Etc.
Request for expertise

Civil Engineering

  • Structures
  • Buildings
  • Infrastructures
  • Etc.
Request for expertise

Metallurgy & Materials

  • Metals
  • Polymers (plastics)
  • Composites
  • Ceramics
  • Etc.
Request for expertise

Coordination of works

MSEI coordinates and supervises decontamination and site restoration work to ensure the proper execution of the work and compliance with budgets and schedules.