ValuePro International Pvt Ltd, a Bangalore-based company that
offers facility management, employee transportation and supply chain solutions,
has acquired city-based indoor plants firm Gardenia Ornamental for an
undisclosed amount. This acquisition enables ValuePro to provide indoor plants solutions
to its existing as well as new clients. Post-acquisition, ValuePro will integrate Gardenia with its business & Gardenia and its team
will be part of ValuePro.
Thursday 8 January 2015
Tuesday 6 January 2015
Safety Measures for High Rise Façade Cleaning
There are stringent measures that should be followed to secure the
safety of window cleaners of high-rise buildings. Safety at heights is the
basic requirement for the kind of work carried out in the construction
industry. Since a lot of buildings have begun adopting exterior façades, there
are a few companies in India who have started Façade Cleaning. Experts say that
the use of a suspended cradle is the safest option for window cleaning of
high-rise buildings.
To view what are the basic safety measures that one must adopt
while cleaning high rise façades, visit this post from Buildotech.
Visit GroupL to avail Window and Facade Cleaning
services.
Tips for Success in Facility Management
Facilities Management is a demanding profession which requires a
diverse set of skills in order to be successful. Facility managers are always under
pressure to reduce operating costs. The consistent professional, interpersonal
and even emotional demands that FMs face on a daily basis seem to fly from all
directions. A quality FM learns to manage and compartmentalize all of these
demands, while continuing to strive for customer service excellence.
But, how exactly, does one stand out as a leader in this rapidly
expanding industry? Here are few skills every facilities manager needs to succeed. Click here to read the full article.
Source: iofficecorp.com
Monday 5 January 2015
Amalgamating Traditional Values with Technology
Hospitality services sector has traditionally been more of a
person to person connection. Perhaps it is the only sector which keeps the
traditional values alive along with the turn-down services with the very
reasonable facts that they can be used to enhance service and communication
with guests.
Know why Shilpa Kosambia, Executive Housekeeper, Sofitel
BKC, Mumbai, feels
Housekeeping must be looked at as an investment and not as expense. Read the entire
interview here.
Source:
CleanIndiaJournal
CSR in Housekeeping
Lemon Tree Hotels has been hiring PWDs (Persons With Disability - 100% speech and
hearing impaired people – mostly from BPL communities) since 2007. Currently,
over 10% of group employees are from this segment of the population. The group
plans to increase this number to more than 10% of total employees by end
2014-15. Lemon Tree has also developed a standard process to induct people with
disabilities into all its hotels pan India, including remote places like
Muhamma in Kerala.
Watch how Housekeeping has tremendous potential to become a
CSR initiative, in this article from CleanIndiaJournal.
GroupL is a leader in providing cleaning and housekeeping services. Visit us to know more.
Tuesday 30 December 2014
Winter Weather Maintenance: A Checklist
Winter brings its own set of challenges for every facility
manager. Even snow can present major maintenance problems when it accumulates
enough to impact roof structures or drifts where it can block entrances or
cause ice to form on sidewalks.
As a facility manager, if you are on the lookout for a
perfect checklist that can help your facility staff prepare for the changes
that winter brings, and if you want to ensure that the buildings and facilities
are prepared for winter, here's a post from TodaysFacilityManager that comes to
your rescue.
Visit GroupL for all your facility management needs.
Monday 29 December 2014
Hard Floor Maintenance Tips
Nowadays, types of flooring installed in facilities is on the rise. The challenge is to keep them maintained properly for a long time. Each type of
flooring has to be maintained differently, as what works well for a particular
type of flooring will not work for the other. Knowing & understanding the
various types of flooring in a facility, whether vinyl, linoleum, marble or
slate, is important in developing a programme to maintain them properly as maintaining
all of them the same way is likely to cause damage to some.
What are hard floors? What is the criterion for the
maintenance of these floors and how to select right method for hard floor maintenance?
These are some of the questions Deepak Baluja, Managing Director, Final
Technologies Pvt Ltd, answers, in this post from Buildotech.
GroupL offers a thorough floor maintenance package. Visit us to know more!
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