Adam Jankowski FISSE MBICSc. Tech IOSH
Adam is a consultant and consultant trainer at The Restoration Academy UK Limited and the Damp & Mould Academy. With over 32 years of experience in cleaning and restoration, he is one of the most prolific trainers in the industry in the UK working with some of the most significant suppliers of products and services in the cleaning and restoration business. Adam was a director of The National Carpet Cleaners Association for 5 years and served on the UK Advisory Council of the IICRC (Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification – an international standards and certification body for our industry) when the IICRC had a UK office.
Adam is a Fellow of the Institute of Specialist Surveyors and Engineers (ISSE), a Member of the British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc) and holds memberships with The British Damage Management Association (BDMA), Technical Member of the Institute of Safety and Health (IOSH), Cleaning Industry Research Institute (CIRI) and International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ).
Adam has been a consultant instructor for the WoolSafe Organisation and a WoolSafe Certified Carpet Inspector for over 20 years. He also teaches as an independent instructor and consultant for other clients such as The National Flood School, Legend Brands (Restoration Sciences Academy), Prochem (Europe) Limited and other private corporate clients including working an expert witness/consultant for the BBC’s Watchdog/Rogue Traders program (aired on 4th November 2010) on an alleged carpet cleaning scam.
Adam’s qualifications and certifications include:
With the above IICRC certifications the IICRC has awarded Adam the designations:
and has been approved by the IICRC as an instructor in:
In addition to delivering training courses in Great Britain, Adam has taught for clients in The Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Israel, India, Dubai, China, Poland and Greece which included working with local sponsors and translators. Adam is fluent in Polish and successfully taught IICRC classes in Poland and as a guest lecturer at The University of Lodz in Poland.
During the Coronavirus SARS 2, COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 and 2021, Adam assisted clients with the transfer of many courses into on-line, live-streaming classes and participated in expert panel discussion on the practical issues of health and safety and personal protection in pandemic (biohazard clean-ups).
Adam is also an IICRC Consensus Body Member having served as a voting member on the ANSI/IICRC S300 Standard for Professional Upholstery Cleaning, the IICRC Safety and Health Field Guide for Professional Cleaners, the IICRC Safety and Health Field Guide for Professional Restorers and a non-voting member of the ANSI/IICRC S100 Standard for Professional Cleaning of Textile Floor Coverings. He also sits on a number of IICRC Exam Review Groups assisting the Technical Advisory Committees in the development of IICRC exams and developing localised versions of the exam for UK and Europe.
Adam has retired from delivering technical services, instead, concentrating his efforts on education and consultancy in the cleaning and insurance repair industry.
