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Annual facility management planning is a good time to evaluate current asset maintenance needs for the new year. Here’s what to look for.

As a facility maintenance manager in charge of dozens—perhaps hundreds—of sites, is there anything more important than having a reliable vendor and team to lean on during times when work orders pile up, staff is on vacation, temperatures are severe…

In Part I of our three-part series on asset management, we explained what separates decent facilities asset management from great asset management—and how that affects your facility maintenance budget. As we said, any facility maintenance company should provide great service…

At CLS Facility Services we say it often and we say it loudly: You Deserve MORE…CLS Facility Services Delivers MORE. That mantra extends across our entire spectrum of services—from HVAC, lighting and electrical to lighting retrofits, signage, cloud EMS and more. Yet…

At CLS Facility Services, we often field questions from facility managers and building owners around the country about cost-effective strategies to “green” their stores and facilities. More and more, they are starting to understand the economic and environmental benefits of…

Well, here we are, perched at 2017’s doorstep. As we move past the busy holiday season, we at CLS Facility Services have but one simple question for facility managers like you: Are your signs ready to rock in 2017? We…

Don’t look now, but Black Friday is right around the corner. Any bricks-and-mortar retailer will tell you that on this busiest shopping day of the year, everything in and about the store must be perfect, from product displays, signage and…

In our previous blogs on LED (light emitting diode) retrofits, we heralded LEDs as today’s standard for lighting efficiency, and we identified the benefits of lighting retrofit projects for a variety of retail and commercial buildings. We also offered strategies…

Ah, spring. Let us once again behold the beauty of life renewed—the flowers in bloom, the birds chirping merrily, the trees with their crisp green leaves swaying gently in the breeze, and warm winds that point the way to long…

Signs. We see them everywhere, every day, seemingly all the time. We humans are besieged by thousands of marketing impressions from dawn ‘till dusk, and signs are a big part of that mix. Signs dominate the landscape of our cities,…

As companies pursue new business partners for their facility maintenance needs, one common way to find the best partnership is to launch a ‘Request for Proposal’ (RFP). This process allows companies to evaluate multiple potential candidates for services, gather the…

onsider a hypothetical scenario: Let’s say you have three dozen retail stores located throughout the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Each of those stores has signage, both inside the building and outside of it. Some signs are big, like…