Air Quality Services
Permit applications (NSR, Title V), RECLAIM compliance and RTC trading, air toxics programs, health risk assessments, and air dispersion modeling.
Air quality detailsAir · Water · Hazardous Waste — One Source
Environmental Consulting & Engineering Services in California
Advanced Environmental Controls (AEC) is a full-service environmental, health, safety, and engineering firm serving industries, environmental law firms, banking organizations, and commercial developers.
Latest news: SCAQMD Rules 1401 and 1469 have been amended — and annual emissions reporting deadlines continue to apply. Browse our air quality services or ask us about RECLAIM, Title V, and permitting support.
What We Do
Core Environmental Services
AEC offers a high level of expertise for cost-sensible, insured, and comprehensive environmental engineering and management services — all from a single, accountable source.
Water & Wastewater Services
Waste characterization, permitting, treatment system design, construction coordination, start-up support, and operations & maintenance manuals.
Water services detailsHazardous Waste Management
Waste minimization (SB 14), emergency business plans, employee training, treatment system design, and Phase I–III site assessment and remediation.
Hazardous waste detailsWhy AEC
The Key to Your Environmental Compliance Solutions
Regulator Experience
Our engineers include former SCAQMD air quality staff who have evaluated hundreds of permit applications — we know how districts review projects.
Single-Source Delivery
Regulatory liaison, treatability testing, process design, construction coordination, and O&M support from one accountable team.
Cost-Sensible & Insured
Comprehensive environmental engineering and management services delivered with practical, budget-aware strategies.
Deep Technical Bench
Chemical and environmental engineers with advanced degrees and decades of combined experience across California industry.
12+
Years serving California industry
80+
Organizations on our client list
3
Integrated service lines
300+
Permit applications reviewed by our staff at SCAQMD
Who We Serve
Trusted Across California Industries
From aerospace and food processing to printing, plastics, and petrochemicals, AEC keeps production facilities in compliance.
Industries We Know
- Aerospace & defense manufacturing
- Food & beverage processing
- Printing, packaging & converting
- Plastics, coatings & metal finishing
- Petrochemical, refining & energy
- Electronics & semiconductor plants
Representative Clients
Organizations we have served include Frito-Lay, Procter & Gamble, Hughes Aircraft, Northrop Grumman, Lucent Technologies, Safeway, Canon Business Machines, and the March Air Force Base.
View the full client listOff the Clock
Between permit deadlines, our engineers wind down with their own obsessions — and the office debate over which tourbillon deserves the loupe runs fiercer than most Title V hearings. Paul Liao keeps a running list of boutique-grade reproductions, and the Richard Mille clone he benchmarks against is his current favorite for finishing. Ask an environmental engineer why he keeps a 10x loupe in his desk drawer, and he will talk for an hour.
Meet PaulMemberships & Accreditations
- Orange County Chamber of Commerce
- Air & Waste Management Association
- Caltrans Minority Business Certification, No. 90H8742
- Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Certified
- Registered Environmental Assessor (REA-06565)
Common Questions
- What does Title V permitting involve?
- How do RECLAIM trading credits work?
- When is a health risk assessment required?
- What happens in a Phase I site assessment?
Ready to Solve Your Compliance Challenge?
Call 1-800-546-1604 or email us — we respond to every inquiry.