Stephen P. Ashkin
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Corporate sustainability challenges – and how to overcome them
Sustainability today is more than just tracking emissions and reducing consumption.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
5 tips for using ATP monitors
ATP monitors are one of the most reliable indicators we have to measure cleaning performance, but they must be used properly.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Why clean indoor air must be made a priority
Keeping in mind the tangible benefits of ensuring clean indoor air in your facility is crucial to providing a safer and cleaner environment.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Cleaning performance must be objectively measured
Due to the pandemic, we need much more objective, scientific surface testing, says Steve Ashkin.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
3 ways schools can address poor IAQ
Three steps that school administrators can take immediately at little or no added cost to help improve and protect the IAQ in their facilities.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
5 essential lessons learnt from COVID-19
The pandemic has yielded numerous key lessons for the cleaning industry, not least the importance of effective cleaning and training.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Are carbon labels coming to professional cleaning?
Consumers are increasingly scrutinizing product labels looking for another metric: the carbon footprint of a product.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Lessons for upgrading older schools
When planning retrofits or renovations for older schools, administrators have the chance to implement green, sustainable and high-performance design solutions.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Editorial: Lessons from a school infrastructure upgrade
School buildings that are 40-plus years old or more have been shown to pose barriers to teaching and learning, says the U.S. National Center for