After being hired as Georgetown University’s director of facilities management in 1992, Dr. Richard Payant, co-author of “The Facility Management Handbook,” asked for a copy of the department’s ...

Every day, we read stories about how low unemployment and labor shortages are affecting virtually every industry. In many ways, labor is a commodity, and like the availability of oil or crops, it ...

Cleaning contracts between building service contractors (BSCs) and major corporate centers, schools, or universities often are for two-year terms—sometimes less. There are some reasons for these ...

Aramark—a provider of food services, facility management, and uniform and career appel—has been awarded a US$16.6 million contract with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. The three-year food ...

The future of janitorial bidding software promises to be exciting as it moves from being slow, difficult-to-use, limited, and providing general estimates to one that is increasingly fast, easy-to-use, ...

Marketing has changed dramatically for building service contractors (BSCs) during the past decade. We have gone from marketing our products, our services, our companies—and even ourselves—to ...

FREMONT, OH—Each year in the U.S., there are approximately four million slip and fall accidents in the food service industry, potentially the largest industry sector beset with slip and fall accidents ...

Being the manager of a commercial laundry plant is a challenging and exciting job. Commercial laundry plants are modern, automated plants with impressive material handling capacity; they are more like ...

Firing a client shouldn’t be done in a moment of frustration. Long-term decisions should not be made under short-term stress. In my experience, consideration of firing a client is rarely due to a bad ...

Johnson Controls, Inc .—an industrial company with products and services including heating, ventilation, and air conditioning—will invest more than US$7.5 million to upgrade its San Antonio, TX, ...

Ecolab, Inc.—a provider of sanitizing, food safety, and infection prevention products—has appointed Jeffrey M. Ettingerindependent lead director of the company’s board. Ettinger served as CEO of ...

Recycled cabin air and proximity to people aside, airplanes are full of disease-causing germs. Recent studies list five areas that are especially dirty: tray tables, air vents and seatbelt buckles, ...