University of Sheffield - Business Case for Mechanised Sweeping
The University of Sheffield have recently completed a detailed business case examining the feasibility of mechanised sweeping.The ‘mile long’ University campus currently caters for over 24,000 students, there are a total of 49 academic departments and in excess of 5,700 staff across the sites. Steve Long manages Portering Services for the Universities residential areas. Manual sweeping of external areas proved extremely labour intensive. Steve discussed the issues with his local Nilfisk representative who introduced a Nilfisk specialist to trial alternative solutions. Demonstration of a