Building Owners and Managers Association Conference Speaker to Reveal New Building Management Practice.

HONOLULU -- Nationally recognized building science expert George Benda, chairman and chief executive officer of Chelsea Group, Ltd., has developed a new building engineering practice called midsource engineering. He will speak about this innovative new practice at the BOMA North American Commercial Real Estate Congress Monday, June 26, at the Dallas Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. The session is cosponsored by the International Facilities Management Association (IFMA). Elizabeth Palmer, general manager at PM Realty Group and a user of this service, will describe the benefits to her company.

Midsource engineering offers more control of facilities engineering than complete outsourcing, yet it is more efficient and effective than building a corporate engineering staff. Neither outsourced nor fully in-house, the new concept provides the owner or property manager with on-going coaching and technical leadership from top-level engineering talent to enhance in-house, on-site building engineering personnel. Midsource engineering allows property managers to increase the quality of engineering services delivered at their properties, providing a potential for a net reduction in operating and capital expenditure costs.

"Midsource engineering raises building maintenance and management to higher levels of efficiency," said Benda. "With midsource engineering, we are providing our clients with advanced solutions and delivering them with our signature service."

Chelsea Group is an Illinois corporation with operational bases in Illinois, Arizona, Texas, and Hawai'i. Chelsea Group provides engineering and industrial hygiene consulting services to the owners of commercial, institutional, and residential buildings. We specialize in building science: we fix broken buildings and help prevent buildings from breaking. Chelsea Group has helped clients recover from floods and fires, solve mold problems, and recover from construction defects. And we've helped our clients with prevention programs that put them on the path to awards such as United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) Energy Star and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. For more information, visit www.chelsea-grp.com.

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