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The newly established, not-for-profit Cleaning Industry Research Institute (CIRI) met in Chicago the first week of March to hammer out details for data that would provide value to facility owners and facility service providers (FSPs).
The Institute plans to offer the following 12 assets to this group:
- Recruitment practices from spending money on ineffective cleaning to being more efficient with current staff
- Protection against liability
- Ability to double building occupancy and, in effect, profit
- Opportunity to build on good reputation
- Cost avoidance, i.e. how to measure how well procedures fare
- Useful data for “working smart”
- A way to insure a bottom line through facets such as indoor air quality (IAQ) and indoor environmental quality (IEQ), smarter building operation costs, energy savings, and greater productivity
- Facility asset preservation
- Investment in premium services
- Best practices — which drive competition
- Less turnover of building occupants
- Sustainability of carpet
Satisfying an industry need
Guided by the CIRI Host Committee — Jim Harris, president, Concepts IV; Humphrey Tyler, president, NTP Media, which operates Cleaning Management Institute® (CMI); and Frank Wiley, president, Magnitude Marketing, representing Castle Rock Industries, Inc. — the one-day meeting of the minds showcased diverse industry professionals from educators to trainers, organization leaders, technical JanSan operators, founders and owners of manufacturers and building service contractor (BSC) firms, and more with one common goal: To strengthen the credibility of cleaning''s role in the lives of, among others:
The Cleaning Industry Research Institute intends to be incorporated as a not-for-profit research institute by June.
The next meeting of the CIRI Steering Committee is scheduled for June 21-22 in Chicago.
