1st Annual CHBA Summer Growth Conference
CUSTOM HOME BUILDERSLIVE CONFERENCE
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CUSTOM HOME BUILDERS LIVE CONFERENCE
Thursday, June 27 - Saturday, June 28
5 Full Days
This is a family-friendly event for Custom Home Builders; if your significant other works in marketing, sales, design, estimating, scheduling, operations, HR, or finance, they can join.
Join us for the largest gathering of home builders in the country. Network with peers, learn from industry experts, and discover the latest trends in home building.
The Annual CHBA Conference is our flagship event bringing together thousands of builders, suppliers, and industry experts from across the nation. This full-day conference features keynote presentations from industry leaders, interactive panel discussions, and specialized breakout sessions covering everything from construction techniques to business management. Take advantage of this opportunity to expand your knowledge, connect with potential partners, and stay ahead of industry trends. Early registration is recommended as this event sells out quickly every year.
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Topic Overview
- Defining Your Customer
- Writing a Business Plan
- Marketing
- Customer Resource Management
- Lead Tracking
- Design
- Betting
- Scheduling
- Project Management
- Quality Control
- Safety
- Accounting
- Human Resources,
- Hiring
- Scaling
- In-house Teams
- Land Development,
- Exit Strategies
Agenda
Sunday, June 29th
Noon – registration table opens<b>
From noon to 5 PM hang out and get to know other builders from across the country and maybe one
from down the street.
1:00 to 2:00 – Starting your Business
In this track you will get help getting your LLC set up, drafting your Articles of Organization,
getting your Federal ID #, completing your state registration and getting you signed up for
insurance. We are doing the LLC and State Registration as we hope to draw many recent
collegiate Construction Management Graduates to this event.
2:00 to 2:30 – Break
2:30 to 4:30 – Writing your Business Plan
If you don’t have a formal written business plan you do not want to miss this session.
5:00 to 7:00 PM – Opening Ceremonies with hours d’oeuvres
Monday, June 30th
7:00 am – 7:50 – The Registration table will open at 7 am with a light breakfast available.
8:00 to 8:30 – Welcome, Keynote Address #1 & housekeeping details
8:30 to 9:30 – Session #1 – (split group) Marketing Plan / Advanced Marketing & Lead Generation
9:30 to 9:45 – Break
9:45 to 10:30 – Session #2 – Track #3 Design and Track #4 Take Offs and Bidding
10:30 to 10:45 – Break
10:45 to 11:45 – Session #3 – (split group) Scheduling / Multi-Project Scheduling
11:45 to 12:00 – Daily wrap up
12:00 to 12:45 –Â Lunch
1:00PM – Board busses for an afternoon at Six Flags Over Georgia or the Atlanta Zoo
There will also be individualized / small group coaching on topics that you want to talk about.
5:00 PM – Happy Hour
7:00 PM – Dinner will be catered by Fox Brothers.
Tuesday, July 1st
7:00 AM – Breakfast
8:00 to 8:45 – Day #2 We will start off with some testimonials / reports on projects that Fields to
Foundations is already involved with and other presentations that you won’t want to miss.
8:45 to 9:00 – Break
9:00 to 10:00 – Session #4 – (split group) Operations / Managing Multiple Projects
10:00 to 10:15 – Break
10:15 to 11:00 – Session #5 – Quality Control & Safety
11:00 to 11:15 – Break
11:15 to 12:00 – Session #6 – Accounting, Office Administration and Executive Assistants
12:00 to 12:15 – Daily Wrap up
12:15 to 1:00 PM –Â Lunch
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM – For those that want some small group and maybe even one on one coaching time we
will take a read of the room regarding your hottest topics and break up into groups to answer as
many of your questions as we can get through.
1:30 to 4:00 – Tour the Olympic Area, Georgia Aquarium or College Football Hall of Fame.
4:30 – Board busses to the Porsche Experience Center
This is an experience that can only be matched by the intensity of our work and thus this will be a
time to relax and have a great time.
Some of us that put our name into a drawing and sign all Porche’s waivers will get the chance to go
on some ride along sessions out on their test tracks.
6:00 PM – We will enjoy a top-quality catered meal
Following dinner, we will have our first annual awards ceremony, see below for a list of categories,
and release our list of the Top 50 builders based upon your 2024 results. We hope to identify those
that are truly setting the industry standard in each of the areas that matter to operating a successful
home building company such as marketing, design, bidding, cost control, human resources, safety,
balance sheet health, owner’s health, business plan and general operations, company culture, customer feedback, philanthropy, etc. This will grow to top 100, top 200 and top 500 over the next couple of years depending upon how many members we get signed up at this level or above.
Wednesday, July 2nd
7:00 to 8:00 – Breakfast
8:00 to 8:45 – Keynote Address #2
8:45 to 9:00 – Break
9:00 to 10:00 – Session #7 – Human Resources
10:00 t0 10:15 – Break
10:15 to 11:00 – Session #8 – (split group) Making your First Hire – Buying back your time / Finding
Your Next Hire – Transitioning from Hustler to CEO
11:00 to 11:15 – Break
11:15 to 12:00 – Session #9 – (split group) Continuing to Scale your Business / Business Continuation
Planning
12:00 to 12:15 – Closing Message
12:15 to 1:00 – Lunch
1:30 – Board busses to tour of the Carter Library and the Georgia Botanical Gardens.
Thursday, July 3rd - Overtime
7:00 to 8:00 – Breakfast
8:00 to 8:45 – Session #10 – Starting an in-house team
8:45 to 9:00 – Break
9:00 to 9:45 – Session #11 – Stepping into Land Development
9:45 to 10:00 – Break
10:00 to 10:45 – Session #12 – What’s Next?
Anticipated CHBA Award Categories
1st Annual CHBA Summer Growth Conference
The Floyd Little Award
A Special Annual Award which will be named after Nick’s Grandfather. The Floyd Little Award will be given to the company that has the largest year-over-year improvement as measured by our comprehensive business analysis matrix which considers all factors that affect the quality of your home builds and fundability of your Custom Home Building business. That award will be a plaque for the wall in your office as well as one free year of membership.
We also are offering an elite group of Home Builders the chance to join our pledge to end the housing affordability crisis. To be a member of that club all profits in excess of 10% must be reinvested into this program to help us reach our goal of providing 5 million affordable homes across America by December 31st, 2035. There will be an annual award for the most certified affordable homes built called the Jimmy Carter Award and special recognition at the end of the program for the builder that builds the most affordable homes. To be an eligible build the home must qualify according to HUD’s definition of affordable housing which means the total annual cost of the home needs to be below 25% of the median household annual income for that municipality.
What are they doing to give back to their communities
The builder that has the best combined score out of all 8 categories (some will be more points than others) will be awarded the CHBA Builder of the Year award.
As explained in the Benchmarking section we will rank the top 50 this year and grow that to a top 500 over the next few years.
There will also be an award for the Best Coach voted upon by the CHBA members.
With our Affordable Housing mission we will also do an award for Best Community Project.
Awards will be given for
Best Design (In-House & Contracted)
- Under 1000 SF
- between 1000 and 2000 SF
- between 2000 and 3000 SF
- between 3000 and 4000 SF
- Between 4000 and 5000 SF
- Between 5000 and 7500 SF
- between 7500 and 10,000 SF
Best Financial Metrics
- Best Net Profit % by build / builder size
- Average cost per SF by build / builder size
Marketing
- # of Leads by builder size
Operations
- # of Homes Built in each of the size classifications above
- Closest bid %
- Best Quality Score
- Best Health and Safety Audit Score
- Best clean site score
Human Resources
- Employer of Choice Score
- Days without an injury
- We will also have a Custom Home Builder Hall of Fame
Owner(s) & Key Employees
Financial Health
- Amount of credit available
- Credit utilization
- Credit score
Physical Health
Overall financial health of the company
- Balance Sheet KPI’s
- Legal Compliance
- Succession Planning
- Business Plan
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Networking Mixer
- Date, 2025
- Full Days - See Schedule Here
- Location
- Coming Soon
- Coming Soon
- Online Webinar
- June 15, 2025
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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