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Innovation

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• UV-C

  Best Western Uses UV Sanitation, Black Light Inspection, and Other Housekeeping Advances in US Hotels

  Housekeepers in 2,100 Best Western hotels in North America have adopted measures including UV wands, black lights and cleanable remotes.
• Remediation

  Liquid Oxidative Remediation: Study Shows Efficacy of Remediation Technique

  In every industry, new and innovative ways of doing things are constantly being developed and promoted. Mold remediation is no exception. One method that has recently been gaining wider acceptance is called “Oxidative Remediation.”

• Bauer Energy Design (BED) Introduces Water Processor for Biofilm Intervention in Healthcare Facilities

  Bauer Energy Design (BED) has introduced a water processor for biofilm intervention that, installed in a facility water main, will significantly reduce formation and retention of biofilm and associated healthcare acquired infections.
• Thermographic Inspection

  Using Thermal Imaging for Building Applications

  Inspecting buildings using a thermal imaging camera is a non-invasive means of monitoring and diagnosing the condition of structures.
• Water Saving

  Dry Run: Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis

  Featuring the expertise of over 25 water researchers, Dry Run explores water scarcity and ways residents and business owners can conserve water using best practices.
• Sustainability

  Island Sky and Partners Help Others with Atmospheric Water Generators

  Offering the world’s first, self-sustaining emergency water containers.

• Coral Springs Christian Academy Reduces Mold Using Liquid Dessicant Technology

  The liquid dessicant technology removed nearly all of the airborne spores that conventional air treatment equipment had previously left behind – even with the higher humidity and temperature conditions in May.
• Green Facilities

  Model Green Buildings: California Academy of Science

  The world's greenest museum is a model for facility owners looking to make their buildings more energy efficient and sustainable.
• Biomimicry

  Biophilia and Biomimicry Become a Growing Design Ethic for Buildings and Schools

  There is a growing emphasis on nature as a "design partner".
• TANCS

  Biofilms on Environmental Surfaces: What Can You Do to Get Rid of Them?

  A combination of physical and/or chemical means is necessary to achieve the desired cleaning effect.
• Cleaning Science

  Commentary: "PR" Re-Defined - What Should it Mean for the Cleaning Industry

  Much of what you read in trade journals is generated by PR people (whether they define themselves as “industry writers” or not) representing manufacturer interests, and quite often the “information” shared does not have the bona fide interests of readers at heart on an equal plane with those of the sponsoring manufacturer.

• Have You Heard of the Biology and the Built Environment (BioBE) Center?

  The vision of the Biology and the Built Environment (BioBE) Center, located at the University of Oregon, is to develop hypothesis-driven, evidence-based approaches to understand the "built environment microbiome".
• Integrated Cleaning And Measurement

  Taking ICM Testing into the Field

  Since agreeing in the summer of 2009 to be part of an ICM pilot with IEHA, the University of Washington Building Services Department has learned a great deal about what it takes to integrate scientific data and measurement into an operation.
• Healthcare

  Switching to Steam? AVT Launches Resource Library on Steam Vapor

  Everett WA-based Advanced Vapor Technologies (AVT) - recognizing the surging interest in greener cleaning and infection prevention, and the media attention steam vapor devices have received In recent months - has announced the availability of a Resource Library on steam vapor technology to help readers better understand the science underpinning the efficacy of steam vapor sanitation systems.
• Integrated Cleaning And Measurement

  IEHA Launches ICM Module at ISSA/INTERCLEAN 2011

  IEHA’s goal in developing the ICM Module is to provide IEHA members and cleaning professionals with the skills to expertly measure processes and practices, better the performance of their cleaning organizations as a whole and to position themselves for success.
• Cleaning

  ISSA Aims to Change the Way the World Views Cleaning

  ISSA's focus is on improving human health, reducing environmental impact, and positively influencing facilities’ and members’ bottom lines.
• Infection Control

  Light Wave Kills Hospital Superbugs, Harmless to People

  A pioneering LED lighting system that kills superbugs in hospitals has been developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
• Cleaning Science

  CIRI Announces “Save the Dates” for Its Fall Cleaning Science Symposium

  The Cleaning Industry Research Institute International (CIRI) is pleased to announce its “Save the Dates” for its innovative fall science and technology symposium, “The Science and Efficacy of Antimicrobials, Disinfectants and Their Impact on Cleaning Technologies.”
• Indoor Environment

  Fact Sheet: Building Ecology

  Microbial communities are an important part of the complex, dynamic systems we call “buildings”.
• Cleaning Science

  What the Cleaning Industry Can Learn from Cleanrooms

  How can cleanroom cleaning procedures and technologies be adapted for attaining low airborne and surface bacterial levels in home, school, hospital, and industrial spaces?
• Infection Prevention

  Sodexo Chooses Xenex Room Disinfection System

  Pulsed xenon ultraviolet light destroys viruses, bacteria and bacterial spores in the patient environment without contact or chemicals.
• Green Cleaning

  Green Cleaning Interview with Steve Ashkin

  We may not be talking about green cleaning as much three years from now as we are today. But the concept of green cleaning is now with us forever.
• Green Cleaning

  Time to Close the Green Gaps in Green Cleaning

  Evaluating and adjusting your facility's green cleaning program with a simple "green gap audit" can result in substantial cost and performance benefits.
• Hand Washing

  Innovative Approach to Hand Hygiene Yields Glowing Results

  'Glowing hands' in the waiting room improves kids' handwashing.
• Chemicals

  EPA Improves Access to Information on Hundreds of Chemicals

  Searchable databases on chemical toxicity and exposure data are now available for scientists and the public.
• VOC Sensors

  Beyond CO2: Sensing VOCs in Indoor Air Protects Health, Saves Energy

  VOC sensors optimize ventilation to help ensure better air quality for occupants and reduce utility costs for building owners.
• Process Cleaning For Healthy Schools

  Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools™ (PCHS™)

  Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools™ (PCHS™) optimizes efficiency, cleanliness, ease-of-deployment, and health factors through a carefully designed and documented system tailored for K-12 school districts.
• Particle Counter

  Is Your Indoor Air Clean After Mold Remediation? Experts May Use a Particle Counter to Check

  Certified technicians may use particle counters to help ensure your air is clean after mold cleanup.
• Education

  The Importance of Widespread Understanding

  Indoor environmental quality is the sum total of decisions made by an enormous variety of individuals and institutions.
• Disinfecting

  MD Anderson Study Shows Device Helps Purge Common Pathogens in Patient Rooms

  Pulsed xenon ultraviolet light goes where housekeepers can’t.
• Integrated Cleaning And Measurement

  What is ICM?

  Integrated Cleaning and Measurement (ICM) is an open source unified-systems approach to institutional and industrial cleaning in which “best practices” are defined by scientific measurement of cleaning outcomes.
• Sustainability

  Five Sustainability Predictions for 2011

  The U.S. sustainable business market—referring to the development, manufacture, and sale of products that help us to conserve fuel, electricity, water, and natural resources and to reduce carbon emissions and greenhouse gases—will increase dramatically in 2011, making the past two years look like “baby steps.”
• C. Difficile

  Does Steam Vapor Kill C. Diff?

  Steam vapor systems share some limitations of chemical disinfectants with respect to endospores of C. difficile, but if used regularly should substantially reduce the burden of this problematic microbe on hospital surfaces.
• Integrated Cleaning And Measurement

  Development of An Optimal Cleaning Process Through ICM

  Any cleaning process must be validated by measurements of contamination levels before and after a cleaning step.