REMI

Stephen P. Ashkin

corporate sustainability

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Corporate sustainability challenges – and how to overcome them

Sustainability today is more than just tracking emissions and reducing consumption.
ATP monitors

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.
indoor air

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.
cleaning performance

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Cleaning performance must be objectively measured

Due to the pandemic, we need much more objective, scientific surface testing, says Steve Ashkin.
IAQ

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.
COVID-19

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.
carbon

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.
burnaby

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.
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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