Cleanlink News October 26 2009
First CIMS-GB Certification Awarded
ISSA announced the first 12 organizations to achieve certification to both
the ISSA Cleaning Industry Management Standard (CIMS) and the recently
introduced CIMS-Green Building (CIMS-GB) criteria.
CIMS-GB, which serves as an optional sixth dimension of
CIMS, offers cleaning organizations a certification that is closely tailored to
provide customers with precisely what they need to secure points under the LEED
for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance (LEED-EB: O&M)
green-building rating system while greening operations overall. Accordingly,
CIMS-GB certification demonstrates an organization’s capability to assist
customers in achieving LEED-EB: O&M points and offers customers assurance
that the organization they select is prepared to partner with them in the LEED
process.
“ISSA congratulates the pioneer organizations who are the
first to achieve CIMS-GB certification and have, therefore, demonstrated a
commitment to delivering environmentally preferable cleaning service,” said
ISSA Director of Facility Service Programs Dan Wagner. “Not only do these
organizations represent the professional cleaning industry as companies of
operational excellence, they depict a commitment to sustainability and
providing added value to their customers.”
The first group of organizations to achieve CIMS and CIMS-GB
certification includes:
Bee
Clean Building Maintenance, Edmonton,
AB, Canada
Bravo!
Group Services, Piscataway, NJ
Castle
Keepers of Charleston, Inc.,
Charleston, SC
DMS
Facility Services, Monrovia, CA
GMI
Building Services, San Diego, CA
Matrix
Integrated Facility Management,
Johnson City, NY
Metropolitan
Building Services, Inc., Washington,
D.C.
P&R
Enterprises, Inc., Falls Church, VA
Pegasus
Building Services, Long Beach, CA
Shellville
Facility Services—A Division of Matrix,
King of Prussia, PA
University
of Maryland, College Park: Department of Residential Facilities, College Park, MD
Varsity
Contractors, Inc., Pocatello, ID
18 Additional Organizations Recognized for CIMS Certification
In addition to the 12 organizations that achieved both CIMS
and CIMS-GB certification, 18 cleaning organizations were recently recognized
at the
for certifying to the traditional CIMS criteria.
“The CIMS certification program continues to grow,
indicating that the cleaning industry’s need for a consensus-based,
nonprescriptive management standard is well served,” noted Wagner. “Further, we
continue to see that more end-users require certification to be eligible to be
awarded a cleaning-service contract, including Region One of the U.S. General
Services Administration and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which recently
made CIMS certification a requirement in its statewide contract.”
With the addition of these companies, the total number of
CIMS-certified cleaning organizations has reached 48. The following 18
organizations have most recently achieved certification to the traditional CIMS
management criteria:
ABM:
Morgan Stanley, New York, NY
Alpine
Building Maintenance, Richmond, BC,
Canada
Bee
Line, Inc., Elk Grove Village, IL
Cristi
Cleaning Service, Hackensack, NJ
Crothall
Services Group, Wayne, PA
Grosvenor
Building Services, Inc., Orlando, FL
Janitronics
Facility Services, Albany, NY
Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Baltimore, MD
KleenMark, Madison, WI
Mitch
Murch’s Maintenance Management (4M),
St. Louis, MO
Pro
Clean Building Maintenance, Altamonte
Springs, FL
Sodexo
Campus Services—Carleton University,
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Team
Clean, Inc., Honolulu, HI
Texas
Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
The
Granite Club, Toronto, ON, Canada
University
of Georgia Physical Plant Division – Services Department (North Campus “Green Corridor”),
Athens, GA
Upper
Merion Area School District, King of
Prussia, PA
Wellington Building Maintenance, Guelph, ON,
Canada
