Melbourne CBD · City Grid
AECS cleans the city grid on its own terms. We move floor by floor through towers overnight, book loading docks for waste runs, and sign in at the desk like any other contractor. Police checked staff, insured teams and day porters when the building needs them.
City centre
The CBD runs on volume and access. Thousands of people through one lobby, a loading dock booked out by the hour, and a security desk that signs in every cleaner. AECS works inside those constraints. Office cleaning runs floor by floor overnight. Retail cleaning finishes before the doors open. Strata cleaning keeps lobbies, lifts and bin rooms right around the clock. We also cover healthcare, government, campus, event and loading dock cleaning.
Local challenges
Access, timing and building rules matter as much as the cleaning itself. Three things shape the job.
The towers along Collins and Bourke Streets hold head offices for banks, law firms and technology companies. Presentation has to be flawless and security absolute. Our police checked teams work through multi level offices overnight, covering open plan desks, boardrooms and staff kitchens without interrupting anyone.
From the main retail malls to the arcades, the city carries some of the heaviest pedestrian traffic in the country, and floors and glass show it by close of trade. We work strictly outside centre trading hours, running hard floor scrubbing and glass polishing overnight so the store is right for opening.
The grid is full of residential towers where hundreds of tenants share the same lobbies, lifts and bin rooms. Wear shows within days. We keep glass lobbies clean, sanitise lifts and resident gyms, and maintain basement car parks and bin rooms on a fixed schedule.
By property type
Every building runs its own rules. Find your sector below to see how our commercial cleaners handle it, without you appointing several contractors.
Service area
Our commercial cleaners are in the CBD daily, and the surrounding suburbs sit inside the same run. If your operations cover more than one address, we regularly service.
Corporate suites, apartment towers and event spaces.
High rise corporate towers, apartments and waterfront retail.
Campus buildings, boutique retail and professional offices.
Studios, shopfronts and strata buildings.
Specialist medical precincts, consulting rooms and government buildings.
Warehouses, fringe commercial offices and trade premises.
Clarendon Street retail, agencies, clinics and strata.
Warehouses, waterfront strata and Bay Street retail.
Chapel Street retail, boutique offices, clinics and apartment towers.
Technology offices, corporate headquarters and event venues.
Beyond the clean
Beyond daily cleaning, one contract covers the rest.
Streak free washing for interior office glass, retail shopfronts and multi storey corporate facades.
Coordinated daily rubbish and cardboard recycling, run through basement loading docks.
Dust and allergen extraction for boardroom and office window coverings.
Safe, discreet, compliant servicing of washroom sanitary bins across high volume towers.
Sweeping and upkeep for corporate plazas, building forecourts and rooftop terraces.
Integrated pest management for food areas, laneway properties and office towers.
Fast response removal of tags and vandalism from laneway exteriors, building walls and shopfronts.
Certified, locked bin disposal of sensitive corporate, legal and financial paperwork.
Tracking and restocking toilet paper, hand soap and paper towels across every floor.
Safety compliance for building foyers, wet areas and kitchens.
Stripping, sealing and polishing for vinyl, terrazzo and concrete lobby floors.
Routine and intensive hot water extraction to lift deep stains and coffee spills from office carpet.
Industrial grade power washing for laneways, loading docks, courtyards and bin rooms.
Heavy duty lobby mats that trap street dirt at the entrance.
Complete end of lease cleaning for businesses relocating within the city.
Rapid response teams for spills, broken glass and flooded washrooms.
Common questions
Yes. All AECS staff pass strict police checks, and we work to whatever access and sign in procedures your building management sets, securing tenancies again at the end of every shift.
We are used to city logistics. We coordinate with building management to use basement loading docks, or schedule laneway waste runs and pressure washing during permitted low traffic hours.
Yes. We take over inventory management, tracking, supplying and restocking hand soap, paper towels and toilet paper across every floor.
Absolutely. We supply day porters to manage high volume washrooms, reset boardrooms through the day and handle sudden spills while the office is operating.
Yes. We work strictly outside trading hours, arriving early or overnight for hard floor scrubbing and glass polishing so the store is right for opening.
Yes. We provide rapid response graffiti removal, lifting tags off brickwork, glass and metal shutters to protect how the building presents.
We can. Loading docks and bin rooms build up grease and odours quickly, so we use commercial pressure washers to clear them and keep the area compliant.
Yes. We offer certified secure document destruction with locked bins, so sensitive legal and corporate files are disposed of legally and safely.
Yes. Our tenancy make good cleans include carpet steam cleaning and window washing, so you meet the lease exit requirements.
Yes. Every AECS cleaner holds a current police check and a valid Working with Children Check, covering education facilities and language schools.
Send through the building details, your access arrangements and when the floors are free, and we will walk it with you, then put a schedule and a price in writing. Free, and nothing owed.
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