New York building owners embrace green cleaning practice.The "green clean" phenomenon is gaining the support of a broad range of local office building owners, from Rudin Management Company to financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. giant, Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LEH), founded in 1850, is a diversified, global financial services firm. It is a participant in investment banking, equity and fixed income sales, research and trading, investment management, private equity, and private banking. . Just weeks after announcing that it had transformed itself into the first totally green building cleaning company, Guardian Service Industries, a leader in the building janitorial and maintenance industry for nearly a century, reports the following new property assignments, all of which will begin during the first quarter: * 560 Lexington Avenue (Rudin Management Company) * 33 Maiden Lane, 551 Madison Avenue Madison Avenue, celebrated street of Manhattan, borough of New York City. It runs from Madison Square (23d St.) to the Madison Bridge over the Harlem River (138th St.). In the 1940s and 50s, some of the major U.S. , 245 Fifth Avenue (Jones Lang La Salle La Salle, city (1990 pop. 9,717), La Salle co., N Ill., on the Illinois River; settled 1830, inc. 1852. It forms a tricity unit with Peru and Oglesby. Corn, wheat, and soybeans are grown, and cattle and hogs are raised. ) * 70 Hudson Street Hudson Street can refer to:
Guardian is already "green cleaning Green cleaning has been coined to describe a trend away from chemically-reactive and toxic cleaning products which contain various toxic chemicals some of which emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) causing respiratory and dermatological problems among other adverse effects. " a host of commercial properties including L&L Holding Company's 195 Broadway, all of Jack Resnick & Sons Manhattan office buildings, including 110 East 59th Street, 830 Third Avenue, 485 Madison Avenue, 1755 Broadway, 75 Park Place and 199 Water Street, the McGraw Hill corporate center in Hightstown, NJ, the State Capital complex in Hartford, CT, and Penn Station Newark. "Client response to our green initiative has been simply unbelievable," stated Guardian senior vice president Michael Eisenberg, who noted that the benefits of environmentally responsible building cleaning services include improved indoor air quality Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) deals with the content of interior air that could affect health and comfort of building occupants. The IAQ may be compromised by microbial contaminants (mold, bacteria), chemicals (such as carbon monoxide, radon), allergens, or any mass or energy stressor , lower water and air pollution levels, decreased absenteeism and increased employee efficiency and productivity. He also said that his company, which cleans and services over 70 million square feet of commercial space in the Greater New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. , undertook extensive testing of a variety of products from various suppliers to find the best performing green products available. During that process, it determined that the quality and effectiveness of "green-cleaning" far exceeds the conventional cleaning methods now in use throughout the industry. Guardian, which not only provides cleaning, security and operations and maintenance services to major landlords and corporations, but to banks, theatres, department stores, shopping centers as well as medical and educational facilities, was founded in 1918 as a window cleaning operation. Today, it has over 6,000 clients in the Tri-state area and is expanding its services to major markets like Boston and Washington DC as well as throughout New England and along the eastern seaboard. * |
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