The BIASC is one of the largest of its kind in the United States.
Our 1,300 members include the smallest to the largest home builders, developers, contractors, suppliers and skilled labor representing over 1 million employees and 10 billion in annual revenues, making us one of the largest building industry associations in the United States.
Our services are essential to the success of our members.
For over 99 years, we have provided a collective voice in the public policy arena helping builders continue to do business in California’s complex regulatory environment including front-line knowledge of proposed/new laws, policies, and procedures that could directly affect your business.
Members First
As a building/construction industry leader, we also provide first rate advocacy, policy expertise, and high-level networking that our members value and can count on. Our members are our first priority. Our passion is to help our members achieve their business goals and projections. Our services are essential to the success of our members in the building industry.
Advocacy
Our builders professional group is committed to preserving a legal/regulatory environment that is conducive to the success of home builders and affiliated trades, and to helping members function within that environment.
Integrity
Our focus on integrity and compliance ensures that we operate legally and ethically in our business conduct every day. Following the integrity process in all our business activities enables us to comply with all applicable federal and state laws, rules and regulations while representing our core members.
Commitment
Every member in our home builders organization is important to us. We are committed to providing professional services to our members, and to giving all of our members the individual attention and respect they deserve. We are also committed to serving our industry through active participation in legislative and environmental issues and by seeking new, creative ways to serve the needs of the unserved and under-served segments of our industry.
Perseverance
Good leadership will keep at it . Good leadership will follow-up. Good leadership will think, rethink, frame and reframe an issue, idea or challenge. It’s about preparation and planning. The only way to lead is by allotting time to strategize about future hurdles that will impact our industry. This is the BIASC’s philosophy.
OUR HISTORY
The group chartered the Los Angeles chapter in 1938 and more than two dozen other chapters soon thereafter. Those chapters included Glendale-Burbank, Pasadena-San Gabriel Valley, Riverside County, Santa Barbara, Contractors Southeast, Builder-Developer, Ventura, Orange County, Bay Area, San Fernando Valley, Antelope Valley, Baldy View, Kern County, Whittier, Compton, Manhattan-Hermosa-Redondo, Palm Springs, Fresno, Imperial Valley, Laguna Beach, San Diego, Santa Maria, East Los Angeles, Long Beach and Victor Valley.[/icon_timeline_feat][icon_timeline_feat time_title=”1940″]The group changed its name to the Building Contractors Association of California, Inc.
Two years later, the federal government issued Order L-41 that restricted building and the use of building materials during World War II. Construction halted throughout Southern California, forcing some contractors out of business. Most joined the armed forces, moved into government jobs or left Southern California to build in places where they could get priorities from the War Production Board for construction essential to the war effort.
Because of these factors, 10 chapters became inactive during the 1940s, and many more merged and reorganized after the war.[/icon_timeline_feat][icon_timeline_item time_title=”1946″]The Builder-Developer Chapter withdrew from the Building Contractors Association (BCA) and formed a Home Builders Institute charter, which evolved into the Home Builders Association of Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties (HBA).[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”1967″]The BCA and the HBA joined forces and consolidated into the Building Industry Association of California, Inc. It formally changed its name to the current Building Industry Association of Southern California in 1978.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_feat time_title=”Current”]The initial Los Angeles chapter remains, but now covers territory from Long Beach through Santa Clarita and the Antelope Valley, west through all of Ventura County, and east into the San Gabriel Valley. It is now called the Los Angeles/Ventura Chapter.
Other chapters have also consolidated through the years into the current four chapters we have now:
LA/Ventura
Orange County
San Bernardino County (Formerly known as Baldy View)
Riverside County[/icon_timeline_feat][/icon_timeline]