With roots dating back 40 years, the Montana Building Industry Association (MBIA) is a non-profit professional trade association representing and serving the collective interests of nine local building associations. In 1964, a group of builders and associates banded together to create an association that would unite hundreds of residential and light commercial building professionals, suppliers, subcontractors, and affiliated industry professionals throughout the state of Montana. Today the MBIA represents more than 2,200 firms with more than 58,000 employees, and serves as the "Voice of Montana's Housing and Light Commercial Construction Industry."

When you join one of the local building associations, you automatically gain membership in the MBIA and the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB). As an industry of small businesses, we work together as a group through the Association to accomplish what we can not effectively do as individual firms. The MBIA is a "member driven" organization. Much of what the Association accomplishes is done directly through the volunteer efforts of the members.

In an industry so vital to the local economy, and one so frequently influenced by government policy, no one of us can afford to "go it alone". It takes every one of us to stand together and take care of business by influencing public policy, marketing our industry, and collectively providing small business services such as education, group insurance and industry wide communications.

Jeff Junkert
MBIA President