Mold remediation built for NoMa
If you live in NoMa (North of Massachusetts Avenue), you're almost certainly in new construction — most of these glass-and-steel towers were built from the mid-2000s onward on former rail-yard and industrial land. That means your mold risk looks nothing like DC's historic rowhouse core: it's HVAC condensate and building-envelope water intrusion, not old masonry.
A high-rise concentrates risk differently than a rowhouse does — a single roof membrane failure, a parking-garage waterproofing gap, or a shared mechanical-room leak can affect dozens of units through a shared wall or ceiling cavity before anyone traces it back. If you're smelling something with no obvious source in your own unit, it may not be your unit at all.
If your building sits on reclaimed industrial or rail land, which a fair amount of NoMa does, below-grade parking structures here have a documented history of groundwater intrusion that property managers keep a close eye on — worth asking about if you park or store anything below grade.
Common mold types in NoMa
- Penicillium/Aspergillus (HVAC condensate failures in large multi-unit buildings)
- Cladosporium (below-grade parking structures with groundwater intrusion)
- Stachybotrys chartarum (undetected shared-wall leaks in high-rise construction)
- Chaetomium (rare in new construction, but seen where a leak has gone undetected for months)
We serve Union Station, NoMa-Gallaudet Metro, Gallaudet University, Metropolitan Branch Trail, REI Flagship Store and the wider NoMa area across ZIP codes 20002.
