1987
HBI begins a hands-on training program that prepares offenders for work release by providing them with entry-level building skills for employment in the industry. American builders travel to China, Japan, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Great Britain, Russia, Spain and Scandinavia to meet fellow builders, inspect residential and commercial…
1986
HBI creates the Graduate Builders Institute, a comprehensive certificate program that presents the basic principles of building management and technology. The program is sponsored by HBI and home builders associations and hosted by leading universities. The NAHB Education Department now oversees the GBI credential.
1983
HBI is founded when NAHB merges its Manpower Development & Training Department, Education Department and Education Foundation to create the non-profit corporation. HBI designs construction and training employment programs that help major cities train their unemployed to become construction rehabilitation specialists while they rehabilitate community-owned housing stock that is part…
1979
The Native American Apprenticeship program trains individuals in entry-level construction skills and subcontractors and contractors in improved technical and managerial skills for employment in the building industry until 1981.
1974
HBI, then known as NAHB Manpower, signs its first agreement to train individuals through the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps Program, the only national residential education and training program serving disadvantaged youths ages 16-24. HBI trains 150 individuals in seven construction trades at one Job Corps Center that first…
1971
More than 9,000 construction industry jobs were referred to veterans through the Veterans Construction Job Clearinghouse, NAHB Manpower, administered until 1974. NAHB Student Chapters start organizing at colleges and universities to give students first-hand exposure to the real-world of the home building industry through NAHB membership.
1970
Operation Transition provides more than 5,000 returning servicemen with training in brick masonry and job referrals in their local communities until the program ended in 1974.
1968
The NAHB Manpower Development & Training Department launches its Craft Skills training program with funding from the U.S. Department of Labor. Local home builders associations operate the pre-apprenticeship training program to help youth and unskilled, underskilled, unemployed and underemployed individuals enter the home building industry with training in carpentry, electrical…
1967
NAHB establishes its Manpower Development & Training Department to solve construction labor shortages in the home building industry.
1947
NAHB begins educational programming by holding seminars for its members.
