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.

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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.

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Selecting the Right FM Service Provider

Selecting the right facilities management (FM) service provider is not as simple as awarding the business to the lowest bidder. To determine which provider best meets the needs of the organization, it must not only follow a structured process but also create a cross-functional team, consisting of individuals from procurement, finance and real estate and facilities management (REFM). Each critical team member must possess expertise and knowledge of the areas they will be evaluating, including the plans, requirements, needs and constraints of the groups they will be representing. In addition to the project team, a governance team with a clear charter should be established to oversee the entire selection process.

A CleanIndiaJournal article showcases the listing of the team member groups that should be represented, as well as an outline of the role each team member should play in the selection process, including those activities leading up to the selection.

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Chairman receives lifetime achievement award in security

Chairman, Mr. Ashit Luthra received "Lifetime Achievement Award in Security" for the year 2014 from Central Association of Private Security Industry (CAPSI) in New Delhi on 12th December.

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Washroom Cleaning Tips

GroupL have put together some useful bathroom cleaning tips, using only natural products. Bathroom often get the dirtiest and special care must be taken to keep the area clean and sparkling! Cleaning the bathroom is tedious, but it has to be done. Yes, we know you'd rather be out shopping, gardening or riding your bike. But, if you follow these tips and tricks to clean your bathroom, you'll have plenty of time left over. Visit the GroupL December Newsletter to view all the cleaning tips.

In case you don't have time to give your bathrooms a deep clean, contact GroupL a professional cleaning company on 180030021515 or email us at info@group.in.

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Investing in Housekeeping

Housekeeping is a key department of a hotel. As we understand hotel business, there are two major revenue centres – Rooms Division and Food & Beverage Division. “Housekeeping is an integral part, both in terms of creating a standard product ready for sale and general upkeep & maintenance standards of common areas,” says Kasturi Deo, Executive Housekeeper, Hilton Mumbai International Airport.

Housekeeping is still manpower driven but mechanized cleaning is an integral part as well. Even though there is no thumb rule for the percentage of allocation for investing in linen, laundry equipment, cleaning equipment, infrastructure and uniforms, there are huge purchases made depending on the size and type of the hotel.

Click here to see why she feels outsourcing housekeeping and cleaning services to professional cleaning agencies is beneficial. 

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Facilities Management Services Market in India 2014

Netscribes, Inc. launches a report on the Facilities Management Services Market in India 2014 covering a market with strong growth potential. It is a part of Netscribes’ Retail and Services Industry Series.

Netscribes, a global market intelligence firm, released its latest report on the ‘Facilities Management Services Market in India 2014’. It claims the ongoing development in real estate, retail & healthcare sector has translated into demand for support services which in turn has led to a growth in facilities management services market in India.

Netscribes’ latest market research report titled Facilities Management Services Market in India 2014 outlines how the facilities management segment has now been elevated to a strategic level of importance. India embraced facilities management services when companies started outsourcing their non-core activities to different vendors. Non-core activities comprise the paraphernalia of activities such as HVAC, maintenance and cleaning, plumbing and others that are placed at the service of the core businesses by facilities management service providers in such a way so as to protect an organization’s capital investment in real estate. For more information, view Netscribes' press release.

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