Assuring that your building is always operational and in its best condition is one of the many tasks required of a Facility Manager. Among the others include staying within budget and reducing operational costs without reducing the overall quality and condition of your facility. Green cleaning is a solid goal to have but simply won’t work if it is priced well beyond your budgets right? Your green cleaning objectives must be in line with your facility’s bottom line. Most Facility Managers want to see progress in their company’s commitment to green building objectives and practices, but that cannot come at the expense of value. Your commercial cleaning services company can help you grow your company’s commitment to green cleaning while protecting your bottom line and delivering value.
Many office buildings feature sealed construction. This in itself isn’t a bad thing, after all, after all, it helps create significant efficiencies and reduced energy costs. The problem is that while it is effective at keeping heat out/in, it can also keep pollutants trapped in your building. Fortunately, a solid green office cleaning company knows how to improve indoor air quality by reducing allergens and other pollutants in the air. Similarly, these same companies use green cleaning chemicals in order to reduce the overall chemical load in your building while continuing to assure you have a clean, healthy, and breathable facility.
The most effective commercial green cleaning companies understand how touch points, hotspots, and dwell times work. Green cleaning isn’t just a buzzword, it is a style of cleaning backed by decades of scientific research. If your janitorial services company doesn’t know what they are doing, you’ll benefit significantly by outsourcing your cleaning to a cleaning company that does. So what exactly are touch points, hotspots, and dwell times and why are they important? Touch points and hot spots are areas that see a lot of people traffic so they collect and transmit more pathogens than any other place in your facility. By targeting door knobs, switches, phones and others, your green cleaning company can effectively reduce illness and absenteeism while increasing productivity lost to otherwise sick staff. Dwell times are manufacturer recommended usage times for chemical cleaners before they are able to do their job killing germs and sanitizing surfaces. If chemical cleaners aren’t allowed to sit on surfaces for long enough, they will not be as effective in eradicating and reducing germs. Failure to observe dwell times leaves behind bacteria and other pathogens that have the potential to get employees sick and negatively impact your business's bottom line.
Innovation in the green cleaning industry is never ending and the last few years have been no exception. Green cleaning technology has grown exponentially, but rather than make everything more expensive, as new tech often does, green cleaning innovations are helping reduce costs and create significant efficiencies. So how can you save money with the latest and greatest in green cleaning equipment and methods? A solid green cleaning service can cut down on the number of labor hours spent servicing your facility, the single greatest expense in any cleaning service. On top of that, better green cleaning equipment means fewer man hours, less water, reduced chemical usage, all costing you less to get your facility cleaned. Finally, the improved health and air quality of your facility will mean more productive staff helping to improve your bottom line.
With ever shrinking maintenance and cleaning budgets it can be challenging as a Facility Manager to find ways to cut costs without slashing service. Fortunately, the intersection of green cleaning and smart cleaning can be an excellent way to help meet your budgetary goals. So what is Smart Cleaning? Smart Cleaning is working with your professional cleaning service to identify essential areas of service in your facility and non-essential areas so that you can target and stagger work in a way that best serves your facility’s precise needs. This can help you reduce costs without costing your reputation to your staff, customers and other visitors. You and your janitorial services provider should be asking:
Another great reason to outsource you commercial green cleaning is because you can give away the responsibility of acquiring, repairing, and running expensive green cleaning equipment. In fact, much of this equipment is so expensive that if you tried purchasing and maintaining it yourself, you’d quickly find that you could not keep up with the advances, innovations or maintenance. The focus and size of your commercial cleaning company allows them to absorb these costs, especially because it adds to their business model. Don’t settle for out of date, inefficient equipment, outsource your cleaning to someone that will put the latest and greatest green cleaning equipment in your facility.
Finding the right green office cleaning company for you and your facility can make all the difference both in your quality of service and your budget. Green office cleaning shouldn’t be thought of as a premium service that only a very few can afford. Effective green cleaning services should offer you a reasonable price for the service and consistent, effective services you can count on.
At Stathakis, we offer green office cleaning, green medical cleaning and more to Southeastern Michigan businesses just like yours. We work hard to provide our valued customers with the latest and greatest in green cleaning without the sticker shock. With more than thirty years serving our local community, Stathakis understands the demands put on the facility managers we work with. If you are interested in green office cleaning or other building maintenance services, please contact us today to get started at 1-800-278-1884.