• Manufacturer/Distributor

    Open to manufacturers or sole importers/distributors of building control equipment or manufacturers of building services equipment and products.

    This category is classed as full membership and a full member will usually have been established for more than 2 years.

  • Systems Installer

    Open to Systems Integrators and Installers, Master Systems Integrators and Installers, specifiers, assemblers or building controls companies engaged in the ongoing maintenance of building controls systems.

    This category is classed as full membership and a full member will usually have been established for more than 2 years and will have more than 4 staff (employed and contractors).

  • Enterprise

    Open to companies with less than 4 employees or self-employed persons, engaged in manufacture, assembly, installation or service and maintenance of building controls equipment and systems. Note this category is not open to UK subsidiaries of International Corporates.

  • Associate (Supply) Company

    Open to companies that have some role in the design/specification or installation of building services. Where Building Controls & Automation isn’t the substantive role/service - maximum of ten BEMS employees. 

    For Consulting engineers, Architects, Main contractors, Lighting contractors and HVACR Companies. 

  • Associate (Client) Company

    Open to organisations that own or manage buildings and estates. Where Building Controls & Automation isn’t the substantive role/service - maximum of ten BEMS employees.

    For Facilities Managers, Developers / Landlords, Estates Managers , In-house sustainability managers (strategy or maintenance but employed by the organisation) Companies.

    Please note this is not available to service and maintenance companies.

  • Associate (Supply) Individual

    Open to individuals (not businesses) in companies that have some role in the design/specification or installation of building services. Where Building Controls & Automation isn’t the substantive role/service. Where the product or service relies or feeds into BMS then full/enterprise will apply.  

    For individual employees who are :  Consulting Engineers, Architects, Main Contractors, Lighting Contractors and employees of HVACR Companies.  


  • Associate (Client) Individual

    Open to individuals in organisations that own or manage buildings and estates.

    For individual employees who are: Facilities Managers, Developers / Landlords, Estates Managers and In-house sustainability managers (strategy or maintenance but employed by the organisation).


  • Student

    Open to BEMS Controls Engineer Apprentices and students studying full time with a UK establishment. Eligible students will be enrolled on a course within a BEMS related discipline (e.g. Building Services Engineering, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, sustainability, Energy, Computer Sciences.

  • Gondola Pro

    Prakash Bhalsod, Head of Bureau & Controls at Gondola Pro

    “We are a relatively young company but committed to helping to create a sustainable built environment. We are very proud to be joining the BCIA, an organisation which shares our vision and passion.”

  • Neuron Controls

    Luke Brain, Director, Neuron Controls

    “Although we’re a relatively new company, we hold a high level of engineering resource which we’re looking forward to utilise by working alongside the BCIA to help forge the new era of BMS.”

  • A&E Controls

    Fraser Eadie, Managing Director, A&E Controls

    “As a business that has been operational for more than 30 years with responsibility for over 600 sites across the UK, standards, competence and high quality service is extremely important to us. We are very excited and encouraged by the work the BCIA is carrying out on behalf of the building controls industry and becoming a member was a natural step for us.”