BSRIA (it takes its name from the initial letters of the Building Services Research and Information Association) is a UK-based testing, instrumentation, research and consultancy organisation, providing specialist services in construction and building services engineering. It is a not-for-profit, member-based association, with over 650 member companies; related services are delivered by a trading company, BSRIA Limited. Any profits made are invested in its research programme, producing best practice guidance.
BSRIA had a turnover of £11.8 million in 2010/11. It employs over 180 people at its UK head office in Bracknell as well as regionally based engineers in the UK and offices in France, Spain, Germany, China, Japan, Brazil and North America.
BSRIA was formed in 1955 as the Heating and Ventilating Research Council, later to become the Heating and Ventilating Research Association. As the industry became increasingly linked with other services so its research association and professional body saw the need to widen their remit. In 1975 the 'building services' scope was adopted, marked by the formation of the Building Services Research and Information Association, commonly shortened to BSRIA, and, in 1976, the formation of the Chartered Institution of Building Services, renamed the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) in 1985.
The following companies were the founding members of BSRIA who remain as members now (original company names updated to current):
- BRE
- Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE)
- Comyn Ching & Co. (Solray) Ltd
- Crown House Technologies Ltd
- EMCOR Group (UK) Plc
- Faber Maunsell (now AECOM's UK subsidiary)
- Flakt Woods Ltd
- Gratte Brothers Ltd
- Haden Young (part of Balfour Beatty)
- Harry Taylor
- Hoare Lea
- Honeywell Control Systems Ltd
- Inviron Ltd
- Jacobs Babtie
- Lennox Europe
- C H Lindsey & Son
- London South Bank University
- MJN Colston Ltd
- Pearce Buckle (Design Engineers) Ltd
- R W Gregory LLP
- Roger Preston & Partners
- Rosser & Russell Building Services Ltd
- Skanska
- TPS
- WSP Group plc
