TIAS(UK)
Timber Inspection & Analysis Services
Independent Expertise in Timber
Moisture Management Planning, Site Testing & Surveys, Consultancy, Training
by TRADA-trained experts
Tel: 07508 931895
High quality independent timber expertise from industry professionals
Following the closure of the renowned centre of timber expertise that was the Timber Consultancy at BMTRADA, former members of the team continue to offer timber inspection and analysis services. These TRADA-trained industry professionals have a depth of timber-related knowledge, experience and expertise in site investigations & laboratory analyses that is unsurpassed in UK Timber Consultancy.
TIAS(UK) Timber Experts
The team consists of knowledgeable and highly experienced timber consultants with over forty years experience within the former TRADA Technology & and BMTRADA Timber Consultancy.
Nick Clifford
Senior Timber Consultant & Director
TRADA-trained timber expert Nick Clifford has over twenty years’ experience of providing high-quality advice on timber-related issues to architects, engineers, contractors, developers, conservation bodies and public clients including in his former role as Senior Consultant in BMTrada's highly renowned Timber Consultancy.
Working within the UK centre of expertise that was the Timber Consultancy behind 'TRADA' a high level of expertise and quality of reporting was the only standard in a team that produced many of the expert timber consultants in the UK today.
Nick teaches visual strength grading and is a regular public speaker on timber-related subjects.
His previous Clients include: Great British Nuclear (formerly BNFL), Health & Safety Executive, HM Prison Service, Highways Agency, Warwick Castle, EDF, MoD.
His previous projects include: NAIC Warwick University; Aberdeen Stadium, Hong Kong; The Cube; Dalston Works; Royal Academy of Arts; Olympia Pillar Hall; Historic Royal Palaces
Phil O'Leary
Associate Consultant
Phil O'Leary has over 25 years of experience in the design, specification, structural grading, supply, installation and performance
in service of timber, including 20 years of experience as an expert witness.
Former Head of Timber Consultancy at BM TRADA, the technical authority behind TRADA. With over 30 years of post-qualifying experience, Phil has published in local and international journals about wood science.
Phil is chairman of BSI’s Wood Preservation Committee and a member of the Wood Protection Association’s Technical Committee.
Dr Andy Pitman
PhD, Msc, BSc, CTLHE, Fellow IOM3
Associate Consultant
Former Principal Consultant in BMTRADA's Timber Consultancy, Andy Pitman is a wood scientist with 15 years teaching and conducting research at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College where he was Head of the Forest Products Research Centre. He is a Fellow of the IOM3 and past Chairman of the Wood Technology Society. Andy is a member of the Wood Protection Association’s Technical Committee and was a member of British Standards Committee B/5-15 which deals with British and European standards relating to wood protection.
Andy has acted as an Expert Witness in several legal cases relating to the performance of wood products. Andy has inspected and reported on the condition of timbers in a wide range of end uses from buildings, bridges, piers and yachts. Andy has delivered CPD training to Architects and Engineers on behalf of RIBA, Wood for Good and TRADA.
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