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Article: BOMA begins research into defibrillators in buildings.(the Building Owners and Managers Association)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Real Estate Weekly
- Article date:
- February 21, 2001
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Last year, Congress passed legislation that effectively required the General Services Administration (GSA) -- one of the nation's largest owners and lessors of office space -- to stock its public buildings with Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), devices that can restart a heart that has stopped beating effectively. Last month, the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International, at the direction of its membership, began a six-month research effort into the benefits and liabilities of proactively placing these devices in private commercial buildings.
BOMA's membership, through a unanimous vote by its board of governors, directed the ...