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Facilities CAMPUS SPACES
Getting Clean
Are the buildings on your campus clean enough? We asked the professionals how clean buildings should be—and how to get them that clean.
BY MICHAEL FICKES
HOW CLEAN IS CLEAN on a college campus? Can cleanliness be measured and then improved?
In fact, cleanliness is measured regularly on the
best-kept college campuses. APPA, the Association of Physical Plant Administrators, provides a measuring system with five levels of cleanliness.
APPA’s Level 1 is the highest level and its cleanliness standard is spotless. Level 5 is the lowest level and refers to facilities that are unkempt and neglected. (Incidentally, APPA is also referred to as the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers.)
“Many college and university campuses that we work with hover between Levels 2 and 3 of cleanliness,” says David Kornegay, community director with Cary, NC-based Dude Solutions, a
company that provides software applications that help track and manage facility maintenance across institutional campuses such as colleges and universities.
“Levels 2 and 3 indicate that a facility is tidy,” continues Kornegay. “But there may not be enough personnel to provide the frequency of cleaning to reach Level 1.
“At Levels 2 and 3, there is no trash on the floor. There may be dull spots on the flooring, but nothing is dingy or burned out. It is tidy but not perfectly clean.” (See the accompanying sidebar on page 24 for summaries of all five levels.)
Are college and university maintenance staffs trained in clean- liness measurement? Some, but not all, according to Kornegay. “I would like to see more staff trained in this system,” he says.
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