Benefits to Your Clients
Certification Benefits to the Building Service Contractor(BSC)
BSC's throughout the country who are certified will benefit from your Green Program with better revenues, more stable accounts and clientele who better understand the value of their services.
Consider the following benefits:
- Certification improves marketing perception
- Certification elevates them above non-certified BSC's
- Certification gets account referrals
- Certification adds stability to present and future accounts
- Certification adds credibility to any BSC becoming certified through a recognized independent third party certification process
- Certification better prepares a BSC if their client decides to go LEED-EBOM
- Certification better prepares a BSC if their client decides to implement an Environmental Management System (EMS) through ISO 14000
- Only certified BSC's can clean certified locations and bid on national and regional accounts with a certified green program in place
- A certified program improves Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) through considerably less Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC's)
- Certification improves revenues
There's no question that becoming certified is good for business.
Benefits to the Building Owner/Manager
Success as a Building Owner/Manager requires meeting the challenge resulting from rapidly changing demands. These demands include the physical structure of the building itself, demands of tenants, liability and legal issues, vacancy/occupancy rates, changing compliance and regulatory requirements. Certified Green Programs were designed to create and maintain a healthier building environment as well as protect the building and its contents. Not only does the certified program methods help protect assets, but it can be used additionally for a marketable and profitable advantage.
Consider the following benefits:
- Certification improves productivity and attendance leading to improved employee moral
- Certification assures employees that they are working for an environmentally responsible organization
- Certification reduces liability through highly trained staff/Building Service Contractor's (BSC's) using better products and cleaning/maintenance techniques
- Certification offers improved indoor air quality through less Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC'S)
- Certification offers improved marketability and credibility, commanding significantly higher rental rates
- Certification offers reduced overhead costs in the long term due to accumulative effects of these benefits
- The Building Owner /Manager gains a tremendous resource of knowledge through the support of a Certified Professional
- Certification can improve tenancy rate