November 2023

The British Board of Agrément (BBA) is streamlining its certification process through the introduction of BBA Pathfinder as part of its certification offerings. This new service is designed to empower manufacturers and their teams to embrace innovation, enhance efficiency, and elevate industry standards through certification.

The new service is a direct response from valuable client feedback. BBA is improving its processes to ensure that manufacturers are well-prepared and equipped with all the necessary information before they embark on their certification projects. It also provides a clear roadmap to certification, eliminating uncertainties and potential roadblocks, to enable a smooth and efficient journey to certification.

“BBA Pathfinder represents a significant leap forward in our mission to help manufacturers, foster innovation, and elevate industry standards, while acting on valuable client feedback to deliver an improved client experience,” said Tara Deller Hoy, Chief Operating Officer at BBA. “The initiative builds upon recent roundtable discussions at BBA, where we explored how to enable and support innovation in the industry. We look forward to driving positive change and partnering with manufacturers on their certification journeys and helping them achieve their goals.”

The process helps those who are looking to take the next step into certification and helps manage and mitigate any risk involved. This process clarifies your readiness before any commitments are made and gives the chance to manage your product development plan, manage stakeholders, and keep an eye on budget and future revenue opportunity more accurately. It’s also designed to help start-ups, SMEs, and those who are launching something new or unusual and never been certified before. Through this process, the BBA will explain how product certification works, giving the critical tools needed to be able to accurately budget, plan and deploy product innovation initiatives.

For more information on the BBA, visit www.bbacerts.co.uk/

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About the BBA

The British Board of Agrément (BBA) drives industry safety and quality by providing services that help clients through enabling innovation, identifying risk and demonstrating fitness-for-purpose. Since 1966, the BBA has built its position as an independent certification body in the Construction and Civil Engineering Industries, working with organisations from over 72 countries globally, and proudly enabling the innovation of products and systems.

A rich heritage of expertise and skill, coupled with a collaborative approach to working in partnership with Industry, underpins an acute focus on construction innovation of the future. Through extensive product and system research, testing and certification, auditing, and inspection, the BBA helps to instil confidence throughout the construction and manufacturing supply chain in both the UK and Global marketplaces. Find out more at https://www.bbacerts.co.uk/.

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