National Frame Builders Association

About This Association

On a cold November day in 1969, 20 Midwestern post-frame builders gathered in Chicago to discuss building code changes that would directly affect their businesses. Some of the builders were competitors and knew each other well. Some of the builders were total strangers. But they had one thing in common – a desire to fight for their livelihoods, and the post-frame building. The future of the post-frame building was being threatened by a pending Indiana building code. Freemon Borkholder of Borkholder Buildings, Inc. rallied builders who saw that post-frame structures were moving beyond agricultural applications. Many builders had moved heavily into commercial and industrial building using the post-frame building concept. But a move by Indiana’s Administrative Building Council to adopt the BOCA code for commercial applications threatened the industry, because it did not include post-frame building design concepts. Borkholder knew that, acting as a team, post-frame builders would be heard. “We would be banding together with our voices to be heard as an association, instead of individual builders,” he said. “If you tried to go to the building council as an individual, it wouldn’t carry clout with them. But as a group, and with everyone in harmony as an association, it meant that the industry was speaking.” After much discussion, the name National Frame Building Association (NFBA) was selected. With the establishment of a name, the association pushed onward.

Publications

Frame Building News Magazine

Conventions

2022 NFBA Frame Building Expo

Specialties:

1. Builders

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