Temple University: 20+ Years of Campus Cleaning, Kitchen Compliance & Floor Care
Temple University is one of the nation’s top 50 public universities. It’s a leading research institution in the heart of Philadelphia. A campus that size doesn’t get to close for a bad cleaning day. Academic buildings, residence halls, dining facilities, and common spaces all need to stay clean, safe, and fully operational. That’s true for students, faculty, and staff, seven days a week, every week of the academic year.
What the Work Actually Covers
CNS Cleaning’s dedicated team provides daily cleaning across campus. Project work runs on top of that, scheduled around the academic calendar instead of a generic maintenance rotation.
Every kitchen, dining hall, and food-prep space gets maintained to food-safety and sanitation standards. It’s not just swept and mopped. That means quarterly grease trap cleaning and biweekly drain cleaning. Hood and duct cleaning runs monthly or quarterly, depending on the kitchen. This is exactly the kind of commercial kitchen cleaning work that keeps a university dining program compliant. Without it, a school is one health inspection away from a shutdown.
Floor care runs on the same logic. Thousands of students and visitors move through campus every day, and floors take a beating fast. A slip-and-fall in a busy hallway is a safety risk, not just a look. CNS runs commercial-grade floor equipment at each facility for routine cleaning and restorative work. That keeps surfaces safe as well as presentable.
Beyond the Academic Year
The work doesn’t stop when the semester ends. During summer months and campus transitions, CNS crews stay on-site. They provide make-ready services and room turnover support. Crews clean and sanitize residence halls and campus housing so each space is ready for its next occupant. That’s a different scheduling problem than office cleaning. There’s a hard deadline and a fixed volume of rooms. There’s no room for a missed date before the next class of students moves in.
Two Decades, Not Two Years
CNS’s relationship with Temple didn’t start with the full campus. It started with libraries and bookstores. More than 20 years later, the team delivers cleaning, maintenance, and remediation services across every area of campus. That scope only grows when the work holds up year after year.
University leadership has said as much directly. Heather, director of operations, called it “the best company we have ever worked with.” Asha, district manager, said CNS’s “extreme attention to detail and scheduling is unrivaled.” Brandon, executive director, summed up the relationship this way: “Our experience with this company has been invaluable to the entire university.”
That’s not vendor-relationship language. That’s what a facilities team says about a partner they’ve stopped having to manage.
Why This Matters for Philadelphia Campuses
Running university cleaning services at Temple’s scale for two decades takes more than a basic janitorial quote. CNS handles food-safety documentation, seasonal turnover deadlines, and the accountability a large institution needs. A school this size can’t afford to replace its vendor mid-semester. Daily janitorial services, compliance-grade kitchen maintenance, and reliable commercial floor care: that combination is what a 20-plus-year contract actually requires. It’s what CNS delivers at every Philadelphia-area facility of this size.
