About Us
BM TRADA Bookshop
The Bookshop provides technical information and books to professionals, primarily in the built environment sector. BM TRADA's own-branded publications are prepared by in-house experts and made available via the shop alongside complementary books and standards from third-party publishers.
We select a comprehensive range of hand-picked resources to assist quality/business improvement managers, engineers, architects, site managers, contractors and other construction professionals in the course of their work. But if you don't find what you are looking for please get in touch, as we can source books from a wide range of publishers.
About BM TRADA
BM TRADA has a long history and heritage that we are justifiably proud of. Our origins date back over 80 years to 1934.
We are a global testing, inspection and certification company that delivers critical services in materials testing, product qualification testing, inspection and certification to the Fire and Building Products marketplace, where failure in service is simply not an option.
Everything BM TRADA does is designed to help our customers to develop better products and processes; get their products to market on time; save time and money; and minimize the risk associated with product and process development as well as product production.
Our purpose as a business is simple: to help our customers ensure that all of the materials, products, and processes we test, inspect, and certify for them, regardless of the industry sectors they operate in, are always safe in their end application, of marketable quality, compliant with all relevant standards and industry regulations, and ultimately fit for purpose.
In 1934, a forerunner of what later became the Timber Research and Development Association (TRADA) was set up, its mission, to promote the use of wood in construction in the face of a growth in the use of alternative materials.
60 years later, in the mid-1990s following a management buyout of TRADA’s operating companies, the testing, inspection and certification services were grouped together under the three brands, BM TRADA Certification, Chiltern International Fire and TRADA Technology.
In 2013, these three businesses came together and rebranded as BM TRADA, part of an exercise to clearly position the organization as a single leading international Testing, Inspection and Certification business.
Element Group
Today, BM TRADA is part of the Element Group, a global network of more than 9,000 engaged experts, operating out of over 200 laboratories, located in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Element as a brand is little more than a decade old, but can trace its origins back to 1827. With roots based in industrial testing and measurement in the Victorian era, Element businesses have been involved in materials and product testing that gave the world the Model T ford, put Concorde into the skies and has helped keep Venice afloat.
We are the fastest growing testing, inspection, certification and calibration business in the world.