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recovered approximately 150 000 pieces of electronic equipment and decontaminated more than 1.3 million square feet of office space . citation needed 2001 tropical storm allison performed water damage recovery projects from severe flooding including major medical district buildings in houston texas . 6 2004 manoa flood recovered 47 000 maps and 75 000 aerial photographs in the university of hawaii library ; research collection on the western pacific islands and trust territory of the pacific islands . 2004 hurricane ivan performed thermal vacuum freeze drying to restore more than 4 000 boxes of documents half of the vital records in the cayman islands national archives . 7 2005 hurricane katrina restored more than 500 commercial buildings over a two year period . the largest project tulane university involved 104 flood damaged buildings and required 75 percent of the campus be restored in 122 days . a total of 20 000 cubic feet of paper materials were recovered in the tulane university library including approximately 120 000 books microfilm in the latin american library collection an historic new orleans music collection and valuable government documents . over 6 000 cubic feet of archive materials were recovered from the jones hall archives at tulane university . 8 2009 sarah jordan boarding house fire michigan historic fire restoration of house museum citation needed 2010 chile earthquake installed more than 753 000 square feet of shrink wrap protection and restored one of south america s largest data warehouses including millions of documents and data media . 9 2011 bangkok thailand flooding provided a large scale response from belfor offices in 10 countries to assist with recovery of large manufacturing facilities . citation needed 2012 superstorm sandy large scale response and massive mobilization of belfor emergency response teams to aid in recovery efforts . the company had more than 3 000 people on the ground along with an arsenal of equipment and disaster recovery supplies . citation needed references edit linkedin belfor usa . retrieved 2011 01 26 . 1 1njg4g.html belfor company overview hoovers.com check url value help . retrieved 2011 01 26 . belfor history . belfor property restoration . belfor.com . 2015 . retrieved 12 4 2015 . check date values in access date help undercover boss episode list . imdb . imdb . retrieved 14 december 2015 . http dsal.uchicago.edu flood cleaning and restoration.pdf http www.achrnews.com articles print helping florida dry out canadians to restore ivan damaged documents . www.compasscayman.com . retrieved 25 december 2015 . belfor usa pdf . retrieved 25 december 2015 . belfor uk be on red alert alasdair phillips chief executive officer . www.the chiefexecutive.com . retrieved 25 december 2015 . external links edit belfor official website cnbc belfor ceo sandy clean up cbs moneywatch how belfor grew to be 1 in disaster recovery retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title belfor & oldid 738660905 categories companies based in oakland county michiganprivately held companies in the united statescompanies established in 1946service companies of the united states1946 establishments in michiganhidden categories pages with url errorscs1 errors datesarticles needing additional references from november 2013all articles needing additional referencesarticles lacking reliable references from may 2014all articles lacking reliable referencesarticles with a promotional tone from may 2014all articles with a promotional tonearticles lacking reliable references from december 2015all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from december 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 september 2016 at 09 24 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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