Innovations, Trends & Technology

LEED Version 5 Update

By |2024-11-07T11:50:11-06:00November 7, 2024|

The cleaning industry’s feedback sparks changes. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a worldwide green building certification program with over 100,000 certified commercial and institutional buildings, as well as more than 500,000 certified homes worldwide. Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), it includes rating systems for designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining ...

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DIAL® PROFESSIONAL Versa™ Dispensing System

By |2024-08-27T12:34:50-05:00August 27, 2024|

Designed to enhance your facility with a modern yet timeless design - the simple yet sophisticated shape works with all your amenity and hand care dispensing needs from body washes, shampoos, conditioners, soaps, sanitizers and lotions. Economical It eliminates the need to replace small amenity bottles and soap bars in every room or scrub soap ...

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Artificial Intelligence in Professional Cleaning

By |2024-08-13T14:24:11-05:00August 13, 2024|

It’s essential to understand the details, implications, and strategies when machines, software, computers, and/or microchips use information purposefully to manage, affect, and perform cleaning tasks and related operations. Information, purpose, and control When we supply the information and purpose to machines, integrated circuits, and/or software, we largely control the decisions and outcomes. Examples include current ...

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Synbiotic Cleaning Products: A Game-Changing Moment for Cleaning?

By |2024-05-23T06:17:58-05:00May 21, 2024|

Learn how synbiotic cleaning products could significantly improve cleaning performance.

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AI and Distribution

By |2024-01-05T22:23:41-06:00August 23, 2023|

A recognized thought leader in the professional cleaning industry decided to test the capabilities of an artificial intelligence (AI) technology. He typed a paragraph discussing a specific topic and asked the AI system to write a poem about it. Within 30 seconds, a poem of about 150 words, well-written and well-thought-out, was created. Amazed, he ...

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Are You Part of the Cleaning for Health Revolution?

By |2024-01-05T22:23:40-06:00August 21, 2023|

The cleaning industry revolution has begun, and it could be among the most important public health victories of the 21st century. As cleaning professionals, our ability to verify and validate our work has become a strategic part of our business. The level of minimum clean indoor air standards is being raised, correcting mistakes from several ...

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Business Innovation: The Key to Continued Success

By |2024-01-05T22:23:43-06:00August 15, 2023|

Innovation is a core factor for business success. In today’s fast-paced business landscape, it must be prioritized. According to the recent Business Innovators Index survey from Harvard Business Review, 58% of executives say their organization now ranks innovation as a high priority, up from 54% in 2020. Successful innovation helps a business maintain its competitive ...

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Making an Educated Commitment to Sustainability

By |2024-01-05T22:23:37-06:00July 7, 2023|

“I never want a student to have to study to find a way to undo what we did to their planet.” That statement, spoken by George Bernardon, vice president of grounds management for SSC Services for Education, during the company’s 50th-anniversary celebration in September of 2019, helped strengthen the building services contractor’s commitment to sustainability. ...

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Embracing Disruption

By |2024-01-05T22:23:37-06:00July 5, 2023|

Whether provided by contractors or in-house, facilities management and cleaning services are industries ripe for disruption. Despite the availability of technology, these industries have been slow to adopt it due to several obstacles, including a lack of digital skills, competing priorities, and cost-cutting efforts. However, there is an opportunity to fully integrate facility management systems ...

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Germs in Buildings

By |2024-01-05T22:23:34-06:00June 30, 2023|

Workforce development must be more than watching a video or sitting in a classroom. ISSA is working with our members, along with federal and state governments, to map all available training centers and revise and develop training frameworks and curricula for “cleaning for health.” ISSA recognizes the power of collaboration and impactful engagement. To do ...

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