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SIX STEPS TO SUCCESS
Ron Segura, founder of cleaning consultancy Segura & Associates, offers up his advice on how companies can effectively improve their green cleaning strategies, with six easy steps on how to implement a successful sustainable programme.
While green cleaning has been discussed for years in the professional cleaning industry, it is surprising how many facilities still have not adopted a green cleaning programme. For many, especially smaller businesses and facilities, it very simply may not be an issue that has been raised. Their focus is on day-to-day operations, which puts green and sustainable issues on the back burner if considered at all.
However, even larger facilities, including very large multi-tenant locations, may not have begun a green cleaning programme. For instance, I am writing this article from a 35-storey building in Chicago, Illinois. Several what could be considered sustainable steps have been incorporated here,
such as turning heating and air- conditioning on at exactly 6am and off at exactly 6pm. Also, having the cleaning crew come in one hour earlier so that the building can essentially shut down an hour earlier each day, etc. But most likely that is being done to cut costs, not necessarily with sustainability in mind.
But the time is coming when a green cleaning and sustainability strategy will be implemented here. And as has happened before, most likely this will be as a result of tenant demand and the management’s desire to attract more and better tenants.
So how will this building, and others like it here and in Europe, make this
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transition? While there are several steps in the process, invariably it all comes down to the following:
TOP-DOWN DECISION Instituting a green and sustainable programme in an office building or any other type of facility must be a top-down decision. This means that the top executives in the company must be behind the programme. Let’s use a smaller business located in its own facility as an example. While the office manager may want to begin a green cleaning programme, for instance, without support from upper management, it very likely will fail. What if this office manager takes another job? In many cases,
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