We are a not-for-profit trade association, comprised of professional builders, developers and associated firms, engaged directly or indirectly in home building.
Congratulations to HBAT Area VP Chad Dean for winning the 2025 HBAT Builder of the Year! Thank you for 10 years of dedication to the Home Builders Association. He also received his Life Director award.
What an incredible turnout today for our June membership luncheon sponsored by Independent Insulation. Great taco bar catered by Old Fort Restaurant. If you missed today you missed a great opportunity to network.
We had a great turnout today at the Ocoee Region Builders Association membership meeting, sponsored by Independent Insulation LLC!
Representative Dan Howell gave an update on upcoming legislation and we awarded our 4th David Stauffer Memorial Scholarship to Jacob Blackwell.
It’s been a great week at our national @NAHBhome Legislative Conference. Meeting with all of our elected officials in Washington. @OcoeeRegion@DeanCustomHomes
Congratulations to this year‘s winners!!
2025 Builder of the Year is Lake Mantooth of 4 Star Construction! 
2025 Associate of the Year is Joe Collins of Builtwell Bank
2025 President Service Award is Don Jacobsen of Cleveland Exteriors & Charlotte Peak of KACE
HBAT Builder of the Year. On the same night I received the Life Director award for 10 consecutive years of service. Thankful would be an understatement! Truly an honor and hard to put what this means into words.❤️ @HBAofTN
Thanks to @TindellsInc for Sponsoring our October luncheon and Chili Cook off. Commissioner, Milan Blake, Commissioner, Josh Rogers, Representative dan Howell and Senator Adam Lowe where the chili cook off judges.
We had a great turnout at our August Membership luncheon sponsored by @bestbuymetals today! Each year we like to give back to the Isaiah 117 House Bradley-Polk and Arms of Hope which we did today as well as personally award another of our scholarship recipients Alexandra Arnold.
Over the first six months of 2025, there were 485,935 single-family home building permits issued, down 5.6% from June 2024. Regionally, permits were up only in the Midwest ( 1.8%); the Northeast (-1.7%), the South (-6.5%), and the West (-8.1%) were down. nahb.org/blog/2025/08/permit…
Thanks to Inline Lighting & Electrical for sponsoring our April membership luncheon. Special thanks to Dan Mitchell current Senior officer and President elect for HBAT in 2026 for joining us today from Knoxville.
We had a great turnout today at our March luncheon Sponsored by TVFCU & Northwest Exterminating. Pictured here is ORBA President Michael Blankenship presenting his father Charles Blankenship with the President’s service award.