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Deciphering Cleaning Product Labels
Cleaning products are the essential tools of any janitorial staff. From disinfectants to cleaning solvents, these items are necessary to create a clean, healthy place of business. However, cleaning products can be dangerous and hazardous to a person’s health if not...
Cleaning for Common Allergens Inside Commercial Facilities
More than 50 million Americans suffer from allergies every year, making it the 6th leading cause of chronic illness in the United States (American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology). Many forms of allergies can be aggravated by improper cleaning and...
Identifying and Mitigating “Sick Building Syndrome”
Sick Building Syndrome (simply known as SBS) is a condition in which building occupants become afflicted with adverse health conditions due to poor ventilation in a facility, generally the building in which a person works. The potential for the occurrence of SBS is...
The Impact of Clean Schools on Student Success and Teacher Retention
Proper cleaning and maintenance in schools can make a meaningful impact on educational success for both young learners and teachers. Consistent, thorough cleaning to protect against any infectious disease – not just COVID-19 but also norovirus or the flu – can enhance...
Four Strategies to Extend the Lifespan of Commercial Carpeting
A facility's flooring is one of the first things noticed by people entering a building, and first impressions matter. This makes maintaining carpet cleanliness incredibly important, but what does successful maintenance look like?Mike Milano, General Manager of CCS’...
How to Engineer a Comfortable Space
Facility managers have the responsibility of not only overseeing the parts of a building one sees but also ensuring the comfort of building occupants. Behind closed doors, and sometimes under the ground people walk on, complicated machinery delivering multiple comfort...
Actionable Sustainability in Commercial Cleaning
Consumer demand for companies to engage in sustainable business practices grows every year, and responsible companies are always looking for opportunities to expand their eco-friendly efforts. Actionable sustainability goes beyond pledging donations and planting...
The Difference Between Hand Washing & Hand Sanitizing
Originally published in BOMA-San Diego Tips, March 2022 If the pandemic has revealed anything, it is a renewed sense of awareness of how dirty hands can get during the average day. Without thinking, we instinctively touch our eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, which are...
Spring Cleaning for Health
With most students and staff members vacating campus for a whole week, educational administrators have a fantastic opportunity to revisit campus cleaning protocols and perform a deep dive in preparation for the end of spring break. Facility teams can use this time to...
Understanding Electrostatic Cleaning
As cleaning technology continues to evolve, our methods of disease prevention become more effective. Electrostatic disinfectant has become a more widely used tool in preventing and responding to infectious disease exposure. This method has been proven to be extremely...
“Handy” Items That May Be Forgotten in Cleaning
In response to the ongoing pandemic, facility managers have significantly upped their emphasis on cleaning for health and preventing the spread of infectious diseases. Despite using best practices, combating COVID-19 and its variants remains an uphill battle. This can...
CCS Facility Services Marks a Milestone and Enhances Facility Safety with GBAC STAR™ Service Accreditation
This publication originally appeared as a GBAC case study, October 2021. The original article can be found here. Opportunity CCS Facility Services is an integrated facility services provider with thousands of cleaning and building engineering professionals serving a...
Brushing Up on Infectious Disease Cleaning Best Practices
As the globe continues to live through COVID-19, variants such as Delta and Omicron are making getting “back to normal” an ever-moving target. At CCS Facility Services, we’ve invested in the highest-level training in cleaning for infectious disease exposure. This has...
Managing the Human Factors of Facility Management
A facility manager is many jobs in one title: servicing tenants’ many and varied needs, keeping abreast of regular yet inconsistently occurring maintenance issues, strategizing for timely yet budget conscious upgrades, managing staff and vendors, and responding to the...
Continuing to Evolve the Health and Safety of Your Buildings in This “Next Normal”
This publication originally appeared in the BOMA San Diego newsletter, Fall 2021. While there is a sense of “enough already” about hearing about COVID-19, building owners and managers need to maintain efforts to protect building occupants and continue to demonstrate...
CCS Featured in GBAC Star Report
In March 2021, CCS Facility Services became the first service company in the world to earn GBAC STAR Service accreditation from the Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC), a Division of ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association. ISSA featured CCS as the cover...
Continuing to Evolve in the Next – and the Next After That – Normal
This publication originally appeared in the Colorado Real Estate Journal, Property Management Quarterly Issue. The original article is on pages 6-7 of this issue. As fall descends and everything becomes pumpkin spiced, not only does the world continue to deal with...
CCS Facility Services Expands Scope with Acquisition of Total Cleaning Systems in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Denver, CO – October 27, 2021 – CCS Facility Services, a portfolio company of Silver Oak Services Partners, today announced the acquisition of Milwaukee-based Total Cleaning Systems. Founded more than 40 years ago, Total Cleaning has deep roots in Southeastern...
CCS Facility Services Launches New Environmental, Social, and Governance Initiative
Denver, CO – September 28, 2021 – CCS Facility Services announced today the launch of its formal ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) program. Founded with a belief that the company could bring a new level of professionalism and quality to commercial janitorial...
Green Clean
Originally published in Modesto, CA Chamber of Commerce Progress Magazine, August 2021 Never before has the world been so knowledgeable about the critical role played by cleaning professionals to protect the healthy of staff and students. CCS Facility Services...
