Privately operated, large scale facility built for investigations, insurance review, and legal proceedings. Documented chain of custody from intake to release.
Griffin Forensic Services provides secure forensic storage and evidence preservation for materials recovered from incident sites. Our facility and processes are purpose built to support investigations, insurance review, and legal proceedings where documentation, traceability, and chain of custody are non negotiable.
We specialize in the controlled storage and management of physical evidence, ensuring materials remain intact, organized, and accessible throughout the investigative and legal process. Backed by the resources of D.H. Griffin Companies, with more than sixty five years of experience in demolition, environmental, and emergency response work, we operate at a scale that few private storage providers can match.
Centralized, accountable storage for materials recovered from your site after an incident, fire, collapse, or environmental event.
Long term storage with auditable access for forensic engineers, failure analysis teams, and expert witnesses preparing reports.
Documented preservation of evidence relevant to claims review, subrogation, and dispute resolution.
Chain of custody integrity for materials that may be introduced as evidence in civil or criminal proceedings.
Secure private storage capacity to support agency investigations when public facilities lack the scale or duration needed.
Rapid intake and overflow capacity during disaster response, when materials must be relocated quickly with documentation intact.
Most storage providers handle volume. We handle volume and documentation, simultaneously, for cases that may stay open for years.
Every item entering the facility is logged, assigned a unique storage location, and tracked for the duration of its stay. Records are maintained to support audit, legal review, and discovery.
Our facility is sized for the kind of material that comes off a major incident site, debris, equipment, structural elements, and recovered components, in volumes that exceed what most private warehouses can accommodate.
397,151 square feet of buildings plus 8.5 acres of dedicated lay down yard, all within a fully fenced and gated 122 acre site. Materials are matched to the appropriate environment based on their condition and evidentiary requirements.
Backed by the equipment fleet and expertise of D.H. Griffin Companies, we coordinate transport, intake, documentation, and ongoing access management as a single integrated service.
The site is zoned I-2 Heavy Industrial with a dedicated electrical substation, water, natural gas, and a rail spur on site. Originally developed as the Meridian Brick Plant, it is built to support large scale operations.
Multiple secured storage buildings can be allocated for exclusive private use when a case requires segregated, dedicated space.
Every step is documented. Every action is logged. Every transfer requires verified authorization. The process is designed to hold up under scrutiny.
Everything entering the facility is documented from day one, including condition, source, custodian, and unique identifier.
Records are maintained throughout the storage period to support audit and legal review, with photo documentation and condition reports as appropriate.
Items and evidence are assigned to their own unique storage zones to prevent commingling, contamination, or unauthorized contact.
All access to stored evidence is controlled and logged. Who entered, when, why, and what they touched, all on the record.
Evidence retrieval and transfer are conducted only upon verified authorization, with full documentation of the chain at every handoff.
Every process is executed with forensic awareness and documentation at the forefront.
Located at the former Meridian Brick Plant just off Interstate 85, our facility is positioned to serve clients across the Eastern United States with the scale and infrastructure that the work demands.
Within 50 miles of Charlotte, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem. Charlotte Douglas International Airport is under an hour away, making the site convenient for out of state teams, consultants, and project managers. We routinely serve clients operating from Florida north to Washington DC and west into Tennessee, with practical reach to Columbia, Atlanta, Richmond, and Raleigh.
Standard Operating Procedures govern every handling step from intake through release. Facility operations are designed to align with applicable laws and the documentation standards required for legal admissibility.
When the call comes in the middle of a crisis, the people who can respond with scale, equipment, and discipline are the ones who built Griffin Forensic Services.
D.H. Griffin Companies handled several projects in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina and across the Southeast. Our team mobilized more than ten divisions and over fifty machines to assist with the cleanup, working alongside local, statewide, and federal agencies.
Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, D.H. Griffin was chosen as the lead demolition consultant at Ground Zero in New York City. Our planning, engineering, and supervision saved valuable time and allowed for the project to be completed ahead of schedule and under budget.
DHG supported emergency response at a fertilizer plant fire under CTEH direction and in coordination with local and federal agencies. The team removed and managed large volumes of debris including scrap metal, blended solid waste, concrete, asphalt, and reusable fertilizer and liquids certified for reuse.
An arson caused the collapse and damage of a major corridor on Interstate 85 in Atlanta. Within 24 hours of the fire, the D.H. Griffin Emergency Demolition team mobilized and began coordination with the contractor and the Georgia Department of Transportation. Working two shifts around the clock, the project was completed safely and ahead of schedule.
Following Hurricane Katrina, work in Biloxi, Mississippi to dismantle, demolish, and remove a severely damaged hotel. The work was performed by DHG of Texas and DHG Wrecking Company. The project was finished in three months, safely and ahead of schedule.
Backed by the resources of more than 1,500 employees, an equipment fleet exceeding 1,200 pieces, and 18 plus locations across the South and Mid Atlantic, Griffin Forensic Services can scale up intake and storage capacity rapidly when an event demands it.
Whether you have a single incident to address or an ongoing need for secure forensic storage capacity, we are ready to discuss the specifics.