The AACEM/ISSA Autonomous Cleaning Survey Part 2
In part one of this article series, we learned that end-users in the commercial cleaning industry—building service contractors, in-house service professionals, and facility/property managers—have varied perceptions and adoption of autonomous ...
UK Contract Cleaning Market Update
Following three years of marginal growth, the contract cleaning market in the United Kingdom accelerated between 2014 and 2016 in line with the economy. However, according to AMA Research’s “Contract ...
Benelux Update: Strong Growth in the Cleaning Industry
Schoonmaakindustrie Goed en Gestaag Read in English De schoonmaakindustrie groeit goed en gestaag door. Dit jaar zal de groei 4,8% bedragen. De economie is “booming” en groeit dit jaar met ...
Batteries Power the Cleaning Industry
These days, floor machines such as scrubbers, extractors, and burnishers are more or less required to efficiently clean and maintain any large facility. These integral pieces of custodial equipment are ...
11 Ways to Reduce Cleaning Operations Costs
Invariably, every business wants to find ways to cut operating costs. Many of the best-run companies in our industry regularly analyze operations and procedures to determine where cost-reducing changes can ...
Welcome to Green Cleaning 3.0
In a sense, we are now beginning Green Cleaning 3.0. Green Cleaning 1.0 began all the way back in the mid-1990s when, after an Executive Order by then-U.S. President Bill ...
Opening up to Open-Plan Offices
Open-plan offices have been gaining popularity recently. An open-plan office, also known as an open-space or open-concept office, refers to an office in which the interior walls—and along with them, ...
Cleaning Is Not Black and White
How much labor will it take to clean my buildings? For someone new to the cleaning industry, this might seem like a simple, straightforward calculation. Seasoned professionals know better. As ...
The Ups of Escalator Cleaning
If you have been to the Wheaton Station of the Washington, D.C. Metro system, you have likely seen something not found anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere. The station has ...
Taking Green Cleaning to Schools
Environmental preferability, sustainability, “green,” reducing your environmental footprint ... these terms have become part of our everyday lexicon as schools, businesses, households, and the public sector have increasingly focused on ...
