The built environment is perceived as one of the key drivers of employee engagement in modern day workplace. Tim Parker, Independent Guest Contributor, USA, analyses the role of facility management in employee retention and engagement.
Today, companies that offer facility services are numerous and varied, but not all of them are professionally managed. Prashant Sule, Managing Director of Pest Control India Environmental Services (PCIES) stresses that it is critical for clients to understand all about outsourcing services, contracting terms and their implementation.
Composting is the most widely employed MSWM technique in India, with above 70 composting plants. Most of these composting facilities handle between 100-1000 TPD of MSW. It is estimated that up to 6% of MSW collected is composted which makes it the only major waste handling technology employed in India. Excerpt from the report on Sustainable Solid Waste Management in India by Ranjith Annepu for the Earth Engineering Center and Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council at Columbia University
One can just drop a coin & wait for clothes to get washed or have laundry service providers collect and deliver clothes at your door step and also get clothes laundered in a hygienic and professional way…
Pest Control (India) Pvt Ltd has expanded operations both in the Indian and international markets and “now there is need for education, standardisation and implementation of eco-friendly pest solution“, says Joshua Rao, General Manager-Marketing (Service Sales), PCI
The global demand for purified water is growing rapidly with no signs of abatement. From increasingly demanding industrial requirements to a burgeoning requirement for improved drinking water quality, there are very few water uses anymore that can accommodate the available water supplies without some form of treatment.
If the enthusiasm and commitment of the Minister of Tourism, Subodh Kant Sahai to make select tourism destinations in India clean & hygienic bears fruit, 2012 will definitely be the “Year of India” as envisaged by him. In an exclusive interview with Clean India Journal’s Jayaraman Nair and Mangala Chandran, the Minister explains how focusing on the upkeep of tourist destinations and the approach to those at the grassroots level would be the prime objective of Campaign Clean India. The Campaign to be launched in April this year will aim to double the number of inbound tourists to India from the present five million to 10 million by the end of 2016, which would be one per cent of all global travellers visiting India. He is also open to suggestions and road maps from Clean India Journal.
One of the oldest known metalwork manufacturing processes where metal is pressed, pounded or squeezed under great pressure and heated into high strength parts is forgings. The domestic automotive sector and outsourcing have been the key drivers of growth for the forging industry in India with consistent increase in production, capacity utilization and exports. With the booming auto component industry with forging exports projected to touch US$5 billion (which is about 15% of the auto component exports) by 2015, the demand for forgings is expected to be at least 16% per annum. The forging industry is largely growing around automotive industry which is mainly concentrated in West as well as South India. But how are forging manufacturers maintaining the production premises? What is the cleaning technology being adopted? What are their specific cleaning requirements? Mohana M finds out…
The decision to outsource a function by an organisation entails a multitude of considerations. Organisations decide to outsource for a variety of reasons, such as reducing costs, reducing internal resources committed to monitoring or operating non-core activities and gaining special expertise…
The famous temple town of South India, Tiruchirapalli, has been facing sanitation issues for long time now. The City Municipal Corporation along with a few self-help groups successfully launched a…