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Selecting a Cleaning Contractor
Maybe you already have one, but is it the right one for you? Here's a list to help you make the best choice.
Does Technology Attract Tenants?
Sometimes it does. But the wrong technology is worse than none at all. Find out how to make smart investments before you upgrade. '
Finding and Keeping a Job in Facilities Management
Whether you're after your first job, a better job, or a replacement job, you'll find something useful here.
Investing Underfoot - Long Lasting Carpets
Tips on how to keep what you have looking good, and what to look for the next time you buy.
Mildew Prevention and Control
It looks and smells bad, it damages materials, and it sends the wrong message to your customers. Find out how to fight back.
Hiring the Right Security
How much security and what kind? Matching the right skills to your specific needs can make for happier people.
Dangers of Cubism
No, it isn't an art revival. But keeping employees happy in a world without walls could be considered a survival skill.


A new online publication, www.BuildingManagement.com, from ServiceMaster Residential and Commercial Services can help you find the answers to these and other questions.

"We realized the need for a web site that helps make a property manager's job a little easier by containing a variety of easily accessible information," says Dave Moore, Director of Contract Services for ServiceMaster Residential and Commercial Services based in Memphis, Tenn. "www.BuildingManagement.com covers a variety of issues from interior plantscaping to floor maintenance."

The web site draws upon the vast repository of knowledge available from franchise owners across the country and also provides a forum for the professional exchange of ideas. "We are particularly excited about The Conference Room area of the site. Property managers are bound to encounter issues they have never tackled before and would like their colleagues input and hear the experiences of others in similar situations," says Moore. "If we haven't already provided the answer on BuildingManagement.com, visitors can enter the discussion forum to talk to other building management professionals. They can rely on each other's experiences to handle the situation. That's a very powerful tool."

BuildingManagement.com includes expert advice on not only the business of building care, hiring contracting services, and regular cleaning maintenance issues, but also on environmental issues, energy management, pest control, landscaping, and damage control. Visitors can also ask an expert, find the right professional, or explore the discussion forum for building management professionals.
  

The interactive magazine format of BuildingManagement.com is designed to be updated monthly. Showcase articles each month will highlight and address the most important issues faced by commercial facilities and their managers. Jim Wassell, Vice President of Marketing and Communications for ServiceMaster Residential and Commercial Services, says the company views the web site's dynamic features as "an opportunity to hear the concerns of our visitors and discover ways we can provide even more of the information they really need in the future."

Visitors are encouraged to ask questions and give feedback to ServiceMaster, and to one another, through several avenues. BuildingManagement.com offers visitors the opportunity to e-mail concerns to any one of the ServiceMaster Quality Service Network of companies, and provides a locator for consumers to find an expert closest to them.
Visit www.BuildingManagement.com today and find out what you've been missing!