Industry news for window cleaners and the people who care about glass. Filed by the Window Washing Guide News Desk from cleaning trade press, glass-industry releases, and standards/policy filings. We paraphrase the news in our own words, credit the source at the bottom of every post, and say what we actually think.
BY WINDOW WASHING GUIDE NEWS DESK →
A people-news note from the Solarban side of the trade: Vitro Architectural Glass moves a four-year Central Plains commercial account manager up to run the Western desk.
Reported this week and following a much-publicized cruise-ship outbreak earlier in the spring: the cleaning trade keeps being the invisible variable in the public-health story. Worth thinking about.
May is Asthma Awareness Month, and the indoor-air-quality story keeps lapping back to a thing we already write a lot about: pollen, mold, and the role of the exterior glass in carrying it indoors.
ISSA's Department of Labor-approved Cleaning Technician Registered Apprenticeship is the first national framework that treats cleaning as a skilled trade. Window cleaning sits inside that umbrella — uncomfortably, and usefully.
A new printed-and-tempered decorative line from a Chicago studio: watercolor-derived art, scaled large, on glass intended for partitions and feature walls. Another piece of stock the trade is going to be asked to clean without knowing what's on the surface.