We've been there, done that and know the scenario: Disgusting toilets, either overflowing or just plain filthy – especially on Solbjerg Plads. But that should be all over now, at least if Campus Director René Steffensen has anything to say about it.
Cleaning CBS’ most used restrooms a top priority
Campus Director René Steffensen has been granted 675,000 DKK to ensure that the cleaning of CBS’ most used restrooms are at ‘Airport Standard’; that is continuous cleaning all day. The solution is the answer to a whopping 50 percent of all complaints filed by students about the facilities at CBS pertained to the toilets, so a combined renovation and optimization of the cleaning was quite necessary.
The grant has primarily been used for cleaning. Until last autumn, the toilets were only cleaned at night and received a light brush up around 4 pm. That has changed, so that cleaning personnel now is present and on duty all day, every day as is known from airports.
The cleaning upgrade was instigated on a trial basis in October 2011 and turned permanent at the beginning of his year, and it’s helped… a lot. In fact, René Steffensen has received his first complaints that the restrooms too often are occupied by the cleaning personnel.
More and more students in older and older buildings
Especially the restrooms on Solbjerg Plads and in Dalgas Have have been prioritized, because these ar most frequently used by students and staff; specifically and especially the restrooms on the ground floor (Studenterstrøget), second and third floor on Solbjerg Plads and the restrooms in the basement and on the second floor of Dalgas Have.
Rene Steffensen points out that the Solbjerg Plads building is from 1999, and that from 2006 to 2011 the total number of students at CBS has gone up a staggering 28 percent, so that today up to 19,000 people frequent CBS’ buildings (and restrooms) on a daily basis – and that’s not even counting the employees.
Two months standard use in a single day
The Solbjerg Plads building (and the restrooms in particular) isn’t built for that kind of work load, so to put things in perspective: the restroom on the corner by the library on Solbjerg Plads’ ground floor is subject to the same load every day that an average Danish toilet is subject to over two months.
Thus priorities through 2012 have shifted from cleaning (which will continue at the present level into the future) to an extensive renovation of the sewers. This will hopefully mean that CBS will be free of clogged toilets as a recurring problem.
Additionally, René Steffensen plans to open access to the toilet facilities hitherto locked and reserved for the use of CBS-staff on Solbjerg Plads’ first and second floors, so students won’t always frequent the same restrooms but will be able to spread out a bit more.
Clean toilets the responsibility of CBS’ end-users
In closing, for any students who may still be disgruntled, CBS OBSERVER would humbly like to point out that it is not the cleaning personnel who make a mess of the restrooms – it is the (other) students. Even though there is now continuous cleaning through the course of the day it is still not okay to crap (or other things) beside the toilets. While we’re at it, it is also not okay to have sex in them either. And it is definitely not okay to jump on them so they break – believe it or not, CBS-toilets have actually been known to ‘fall’ off the wall.
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