Company History

1922	Standards Australia, originally called the Australian Commonwealth Engineering Standards Association, was founded. Main Committee of the Australian Commonwealth Engineering Standards Association had been gazetted in 1922.
1925	Australia joins the International Electro-technical Commission [IEC] with the Australian Commonwealth Engineering Standards Association as its representative.
1929	Renamed the Standards Association of Australia (SAA) to recognise wider role in society.
1947	The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is established with SAA as founding member.
1950	SAA receives a Royal Charter to develop Standards in the national interest.
1951	SAA incorporated under a Royal Charter.
1973	SAA becomes an inaugural member of the Pacific Area Standards Congress [PASC].
1988	SAA drops ‘Association’ from name and becomes Standards Australia. Signs a memorandum of understanding with the Federal Government which recognises Standards Australia as the peak non-government Standards development organisation.
1990	Standards Australia establishes a wholly owned subsidiary business, Quality Assurance Services Pty Ltd (QAS).
1991	Standards Australia acquires the Industrial Design Council of Australia (IDCA) and its Australian Design Awards (ADA) program.
1997	Standards Australia launches new application and assessment process for the Australian Design Award, making it one of the first on-line design award programs in the world.
1998	Standards Australia is one of the first national Standards bodies to develop an Internet delivery system for its Standards and technical publications. ADA becomes Australia’s promotional member of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID).
1999	Standards Australia changes its name to Standards Australia International Limited (SAI Limited) and becomes incorporated as an Australian public company limited by guarantee.
2001	Standards Australia moves its headquarters to Sussex Street in Sydney's CBD.
2002	Standards Australia acquires parts of the former Australian Quality Council [AQC] including the Australian Business Excellence Awards program.
2002	Standards Australia signs revised memorandum of understanding with the Commonwealth Government.
2003	Standards Australia sells its commercial businesses to SAI Global Limited and this company is floated on the Australian Stock Exchange.

2007	Standards Australia moves its headquarters to Bridge Street in the Exchange Centre.
2007	Australian Design Awards opens its entry criteria to include all professionally designed products on the Australian market and changes its name to the Australian International Design Awards (AIDA).