Education
When you provide a clean learning environment, you help students succeed and grow. You also let teachers and staff do their jobs better. Tennant offers reliable floor cleaning equipment and innovative technologies that help you and your facilities look their very best.
Success story: GDI Integrated Facility Services – University of St. Thomas
GDI Integrated Facility Services, a facility maintenance company, faced a challenge cleaning the University of St. Thomas campus in Canada. Its traditional approach — mopping corridors, restrooms and common areas — was inefficient and labour-intensive for staff. The process also spread soil around and forced frequent stops to empty and refill the bucket. Mop heads became dirty quickly, which drove up both cleaning time and replacement costs. Floors dried slowly as well, raising the risk of slip-and-fall accidents.
Challenge
Finding a mechanised solution that would simplify cleaning and deliver uniform results. Automation would not only save time, it would let staff spend more of it disinfecting high-complexity areas, improving both safety and overall efficiency.
Solution
The solution came when GDI discovered the Tennant CS5 scrubber. This innovative machine offered a set of advantages that met GDI's requirements and its budget. The company decided to buy eight CS5 scrubbers to cover its cleaning needs at the University of St. Thomas.
The CS5 proved to be the right choice, delivering faster dry times than traditional mopping. It also recovered nearly all of the water it used, sharply reducing the risk of cross-contamination because it always worked with clean water. Quiet operation meant it could be used without interrupting campus activity — essential to keeping the learning environment calm and undisturbed.
Results
The results were remarkable. GDI cut cleaning time by as much as 50% in some cases, which let the team spend more time on other critical disinfection and cleaning tasks. Employees quickly appreciated the advantages of the CS5, since it cleaned in a single pass and removed the need to go back over areas already cleaned. Its ergonomic design also made it easy to transport and to manoeuvre through doorways and varied spaces.
Maintaining the CS5 also became far simpler. After daily use, employees only had to empty the recovery tank, clean the squeegee and rinse the brush — a process that took just a few minutes. The compact design of the CS5 allowed efficient storage in tight spaces without getting in the way of the workflow.
In short, GDI faced real challenges cleaning the University of St. Thomas campus, but adopting the Tennant CS5 Compact Mini-Scrubber proved to be an efficient and effective solution. Automation delivered significant time savings, more consistent cleaning and a safer environment. Investing in this machine turned out to be the right choice for GDI and for its commitment to high-quality cleaning and safety.
