Cleaning Greener and More Sustainable Starts in the Closet The summer months may be when students and teachers get a little time off, but for cleaning professionals it’s when their real work begins. Along with stripping and refinishing floors, cleaning carpets and windows, something else cleaning workers should be doing is cleaning up the janitorial …
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If they have not already done so, more and more hotels in North America are considering outsourcing services that once were provided by in-house staff and this includes hotel housekeepers. While we cannot point a finger as to when and where this first started happening, it likely started when hotel properties decided it was to …
San Francisco, CA – Today, cleaning contractors must do much more than prepare a proposal to obtain new contracts. They must win customers over with a presentation. Decision makers want you to show them – which is what presentations are designed to do – just what benefits they will receive by hiring you. Typically this …
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Most building owners and managers now have a pretty good understanding of what a “green” building is. It typically refers to a facility that has been constructed and is being maintained with products and materials that have a reduced impact on the environment when compared to comparable materials used for the same purpose. However, things …
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As most in-house cleaning professionals know, floor stripping and refinishing is one of the most time-consuming, labor-intensive, and potentially dangerous of all cleaning tasks. Not only is the work difficult, it can also be environmentally unhealthy. While manufacturers have made giant strides in floorcare technology and developing environmentally preferable floorcare products, including strippers, glosses, and …
While it has been discussed for years in the professional cleaning industry, it is surprising how many facilities have still not adopted a green cleaning program. For many, especially smaller businesses and facilities, green and more Sustainable issues are simply may not be an issue. There focus is day-to-day operations, putting green and sustainable issues …
A request for proposal (RFP) is an invitation, typically made by a management company or the managers of a facility, interested in the procurement of a product or service. The potential suppliers are invited to submit business proposals that reflect the costs of these products and services as well as other pertinent information so that …
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Before a request for proposal (RFP) can be prepared to be delivered to contract cleaners, building managers must ensure they are clear on exactly what services they want their service vendor to provide. They do this by preparing a SOW, scope of work. Even if a building has in-house cleaning professionals handling maintenance work, the …
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One year has ended and another is ready to go! How about you? Will it be business as usual or have you taken the time to review the past year and to develop a strategy to strengthen the weak areas of your company? Here are some areas you might review if you have not already: …
Have you ever been referred to as “The Non-Revenue-Generating Necessary Evil”? Maybe not directly, but this is the way departments in the facility group of most organizations are viewed. For many years we, as members of facility departments, did nothing to change that image. When reductions in budgets are required, we make those adjustments and …
Ron Segura, Founder and President of Segura & Associates brings over 50 years of experience in all segments of the Cleaning Industry. Ten of those years were spent overseeing the cleaning of over 4.5 million square feet of outsourced services for The Walt Disney Company.
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