Company History

1995    Business started. Initially a Partnership called The Flooring Association. We started the business with the intention of carrying our small raised floor refurbishment projects in and around central London

1996    Steve Winzar joins us as a Contracts manager (Steve is now our Contracts Director) after he returns from working in The Netherlands for a few years.

First introduced to a new product called Intercell for refurbishments projects where they do not have the floor to ceiling height for a more traditional raised floor (TFA still love this product and are still the biggest installer of this product many years on)

1997    As the business grows we become a Limited Company and change the name to TFA Interior Projects Limited.

First major fitout project happens this year which is for Salomon Brothers in Victoria, London with Interior Plc

First introduced to John Keith who to this day remains our business guru and adviser. A sensible head on mature shoulders – just what we have always needed

1998    Andy Stubbles joins us to increase the sales support. Tim and Andy had worked together at Hewetson Floors for 3 years previously so this was an opportunity to put back together a great team.

1999    We opened a Midlands office of TFA in order to investigate projects outside of London.

We secured a fascinating project with the now defunct contractor, Sunley Turriff to refurbish the famous BBC Broadcasting House building using the Intercell cable management system

2000    We undertook major projects with Bovis at Nottingham University and Balfour Beatty at RAF Menwith Hill near Harrogate. Both interesting, but challenging projects to be involved with.

TFA joined The Access Flooring Association.

2001    The raised floor market gets tough. Time to consolidate and concentrate on our core London Market. Decide to close Midlands office.

First introduced to an American product called TecCrete which we still use and champion to this day.

Tim flies back from the TecCrete factory in the USA from the same airport and on the same day as the planes are hijacked and flown into the Twin Towers in New York.

2002     TFA completes the installation of 20 floors of Intercell for Overbury plc at the iconic London landmark building, Euston Tower.

This was a tough year where TFA battened down the hatches as price wars raged within our industry. This is a year we want to forget.

2003    TFA won their largest project to date, the new headquarters building for Marks and Spencer with ISG Interior in Paddington, London.

Tony Girdlestone joins us as a sit supervisor and has now become our Quantity Surveyor and key member of the Contracts Team

Generally still a difficult trading year within our Industry. A number of raised floor manufacturers cease trading, prices squeezed to almost impossibly low levels.

2004     TFA undertake a large fitout for Overbury at the new Reuters News Agency headquarters in Canary Wharf...

The Chairman of The Access flooring Association, Albert Hazeldine dies this year. A true Gentleman and a major loss of expertise and knowledge

Light at the end of the tunnel as the market gets easier and we start to emerge from a pretty nasty couple of years

2005    TFA celebrates a 10 year anniversary. Steve Everett joins us as a full time Health and safety Manager. This appointment substantially improves our practices and procedures as this subject rightly gains in importance throughout the construction industry.

2006    TFA goes carbon neutral

Dave Lindsay joins us as our full time estimator and CAD specialist. Other personnel to join us this year include an additional Sales Manager, Barry Foreman and also Rod Slattery as a Contracts Manager.

2007    TFA obtain ISO 9001 quality accreditation

TFA move to new offices in Uxbridge which gives us loads more office space, loads of warehousing and makes all feel a lot more professional and grown up.

TFA start a major fitout project with Overbury which is the new Headquarters building for Deloitte and Touch in New Street Square in London.

New Street Square

2008    TFA obtain both ISO 14001 and BS OHS AS 18001 accreditation for environmental and health and safety systems. The first people in our industry to achieve this milestone.

TFA join the Association of Interior Specialists to increase their profile and networking potential.

TFA successfully diversify into Acoustic and hardwood flooring systems to further complement their range of products.

2009

The Global recession is hitting the economy hard but we plough on, and undertake new and interesting Projects. It’s a time to batten down the hatches and we get to the end of the year without having to release any staff members.

One of our sales people Barry Foreman leaves us and moves back to Canada and he is replaced by James Remon who is brought in to strengthen our acoustic flooring knowledge.

We win a project for Loxford School in East London where we install the entire raised floor, carpet and vinyl works. This turned out to be a very successful contract for the Main Contractor, TFA and the client.

Further diversification in to the education market sees us installing raised floors and Hardwood sports floors at West Thames College in Isleworth.

West Thames College

 TFA finish the year bidding some major fitout projects that we are confident of winning and overall feel very positive about the year in front

2010

A very strong start to the year sees TFA starting a major fitout for The Bank of Tokyo in the City of London. From this project we secure two further fitouts in this same building for Macquarie Bank and Markit, a financial information services business.

Ropemaker Place

TFA also see an increase in new raised floor solutions such as the GIFA floor from Knauf which is an interlocking calcium sulphate floor that allows finishes such as vinyl, timber and stone to be directly bonded to the surface. This system is been increasingly used for commercial fitout projects in Reception, Café and Breakout areas where interesting designs and finishes are being specified and fitted.

TFA win a major project to supply and install a custom designed acoustic floor for a major new public space at the Granary Building in London’s Kings Cross.  The acoustic floor was installed over the listed timber flooring.

This was but one of a number of projects where we were asked to supply acoustic and hardwood floors to market sectors that we would otherwise not have been able to work in when we were purely a raised flooring business.

2010 continues to be a successful year for TFA with a growth in staff numbers and an increasing list of testimonial projects for the likes of Barclays Capital, Fitch ratings, cap Gemini and the Bank of China.