Trends in Floor Care for Commercial Buildings

Floor care in a commercial building can be a huge job, and the impact of a properly maintained floor can’t be underestimated. A dirty, dilapidated floor leaves visitors to your building with a negative impression that will be hard to dispel. Fortunately, preserving the integrity of your flooring is easier than ever before; the technology used in floor care is advancing in response to innovations in the manufacturing of flooring and floor care equipment. Importance of Floor Care Maintenance Building owners and property managers today are focused on their budgets. Costs are high, tenant fees low, and many buildings have too much empty […]

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Is Your Current Behind-the-Times Cleaning Service Costing You Money?

Commercial property owners and building managers face a unique dilemma. It’s critical that they keep their facilities clean, but they also need to be budget conscious. Searching for a new commercial cleaning company is actually a lot of work. Between researching potential service providers, completing walk-throughs, obtaining proposals, choosing a new provider and severing ties with the old company, you may not have enough time to deal with other vital business matters. In the end, many managers end up caught between the need for change and the comfy stability of their current cleaning service. In reality, however, your complacency about […]

Getting Your School’s Green Cleaning Program Started Right

How Green Cleaning Makes Academia Better In a world where going green is increasingly important, it’s vital not to overlook the small details. Cleaning services that provide environmentally-friendly options are on the rise, and in facilities like schools, they’re creating huge positive changes. Here are some of the reasons why as well as a few tips on how to adopt a green cleaning program that enriches your academic environment. What Is Green Cleaning? Cleaning products serve a number of roles. Most people know they get rid of visible dirt and debris, but they also help disinfect areas that might otherwise […]

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Safe Flooring: The Importance of Measuring the Coefficient of Friction

Seventy billion dollars is the average amount paid out in compensation and medical costs as a result of slip and fall accidents within the U.S.; and 55 percent of all of these accidents are caused by unsafe or unclean floors. Measuring the coefficient of friction on your hard surface floors is a step you can take to monitor slip resistance. With this information, you can work with your floor maintenance contractor to ensure a safe floor surface for customers and employees. Preventing Slip/Fall Accidents Building owners and managers know the importance of safety in their buildings and the cost implications […]

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Energy Saving Tips for Commercial Buildings

It can be a difficult task for facility managers of commercial buildings to keep track of energy consumption. So we put together these energy saving tips to help keep utility costs down and increase the bottom line. A study conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency revealed that the average building wastes 30 percent of the energy it consumes, which is a staggering amount and a significant waste of money. And if your systems are old, this amount could be even higher. Simple Energy Saving Tips Perform Energy Audits An audit is the best place to start when considering ways […]

Your Janitorial Contractor Can Increase Profits and Decrease Expenses. Here’s How.

“I Must Increase Profits.” It’s the daily mantra of many facility managers. You are being tasked to do more with a shrinking budget and rising expenses. It can feel like a constant uphill struggle. You are an integral part of running an efficient building and you are challenged with innovating the energy savings, recycling, asset management and costs of maintaining the facility. But how can you continue to do this with restricted budgets? Most by analyzing the data and cutting costs wherever they can find an area to scale back, such as janitorial services. But how can you cut back on janitorial […]

Janitorial Cleaning Audits: How to be objective

As a building owner or property manager, it’s in your best interest to do your own janitorial cleaning audits in your facility. But it can be challenging to be objective about the process because most cleaning audits are subjective. This means that one person may find the dusting satisfactory while another may not. But it is in your best interest to assess whether your janitorial service provider is meeting or exceeding the specifications in the maintenance agreement, and to make sure you and the janitorial management are on the same page with the expected results. Identify the Goals of the […]

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Trends in Floor Care for Commercial Buildings

Is Your Current Behind-the-Times Cleaning Service Costing You Money?

Getting Your School’s Green Cleaning Program Started Right

Safe Flooring: The Importance of Measuring the Coefficient of Friction

Energy Saving Tips for Commercial Buildings

Your Janitorial Contractor Can Increase Profits and Decrease Expenses. Here’s How.

Janitorial Cleaning Audits: How to be objective

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