BIFMA is the not‐for-profit trade association for business and institutional furniture manufacturers. Since 1973, BIFMA has been the voice of the commercial furniture industry.

Our industry’s service to our customers – providing healthy, comfortable, and productive workspaces – rests on an infrastructure of engineering and materials standards. These standards, founded on centuries of craft and enhanced by ever-advancing science, embody the best of our knowledge on safety, ergonomics, and sustainability.

BIFMA sponsors the development and refinement of standards, educates on their importance and application, and translates their necessary complexity into more easily understood and implemented formats. We promote sustainability throughout the life cycle of commercial furniture. We offer statistical and educational resources to our members and the public and reach out to regulators, consumers, and international partners to foster value and innovation.

BIFMA's fiscal 2019 annual association accomplishments.

Standards

• BIFMA develops, maintains, and publishes safety and performance standards for furniture products.
• We participate in the creation of international furniture product standards.
• We monitor and influence the application of national codes.
• We educate customers on the significance of the standards and codes.

Members Only:

• Receive a complimentary copy of all new standards and publications immediately upon release and get discounts on additional copies.
• Secure access to the ANSI/BIFMA e3 Furniture Sustainability Standard implementation "Tools” package.
• Gain early insight into standards under development.

Sustainability

• level® is the multi-attribute, sustainability standard and third-party certification program for the furniture industry.
• It was created to deliver the most open and transparent means of evaluating and communicating the environmental and social impacts of furniture products in the built environment.
• Taking into account a company’s social actions, energy usage, material selection and human and ecosystem health impacts, level® addresses how a product is sustainable from multiple perspectives.