Become
A Member
Join a network of more than 350 professionals! Recognized as leaders in home building, the London Home Builders’ Association is dedicated to promoting ethical building and business practices while advocating for the industry, promoting careers in the trades and offering programming, events and education to our members.
The London Home Builders’ Association is one of the largest home building associations in Ontario and attracts the industry’s best and is dedicated to ethical building and business practices and health and safety within our industry.
We connect members with the home building industry and homeowners and consumers with leading home building, renovation and product and service professionals. While actively promoting careers in construction and advocating for the future of the home building industry and our community, our members are building great communities in London!
With over 70 years under our belts and plenty of work yet to be done, we look forward to continuing to deliver incredible events, strong advocacy, unique and new programming, and useful education and training.
Members chose to join LHBA for connections, education, advocacy and leadership. We invite you to explore the benefits of membership.
Three Tiered
Membership
With an LHBA Membership, you automatically receive provincial (Ontario Home Builders’ Association – OHBA) and national (Canadian Home Builders’ Association – CHBA) membership. These additional levels of active advocacy mean our industry voice is being heard and more of our ‘asks’ are being implemented by the federal government. Over the last number of years we have also seen the provincial government very responsive to industry.
The London Home Builders' Association
With over 350 member contacts, LHBA is one of the largest home builder associations in Ontario. Being a member gives you a mark of distinction; identifying your company as an industry professional and giving you a professional edge against your competitors. Members benefit from connections, education, advocacy and leadership in the London area and beyond.
The Ontario Home Builders’ Association
Representing over 4,000 member companies through 28 local associations, the OHBA is the voice of the residential construction industry in Ontario and is committed to making the industry better through their work on government relations, building codes and standards, safety, education, networking opportunities and more. OHBA has also recently expanded their staff team to better support our renovator members, and with greater support for builders working with TARION and HCRA.
The Canadian Home Builders’ Association
Since 1943, the Canadian Home Builders' Association (CHBA) has been "the voice of Canada's residential construction industry." Representing one of the largest industry sectors in Canada. Its membership is made up of ~8,500 companies and serves the interests of our industry and helps members succeed and prosper in a complex and challenging environment.
Together we have a unified voice at the municipal, provincial and federal levels of government!
Benefits
of Membership
Strong Network with ONE Voice:
As a member, you belong to a strong network of more than 350 local builders, developers, renovators, trade contractors, manufacturers, suppliers, financial institutions and a host of allied professionals, allowing for productive and beneficial relationships and conversations and a unified voice.
By working as a collective with one powerful voice, we can elicit change, influence decisions that impact the industry and make a difference to issues directly affecting our members at all levels of government.
We encourage you to share your personal and company experiences with us as it contributes to our organization’s success in representing the industry.
Networking
Networking is one of the main reasons our members joined the LHBA! Gain valuable industry contacts, develop relationships and respect with potential clients and connect with your peers through:
- Industry breakfasts, luncheons and dinners
- Seminars and workshops
- Committees and council meetings
- Social events
- Lifestyle Home Show
- Member Spotlights
- LHBA’s online Member Directory
- LHBA’s Awards of Creative Excellence, and so much more!
Advocacy
- LHBA’s Board of Directors is committed to working hard on your behalf to keep our industry and our businesses prosperous by advocating and working with all levels of government – municipal, provincial and federal, to voice the needs of our industry.
- The LHBA team is actively engaged with all levels of government as we work to enhance ongoing government relations; this continual interaction is critical to ensuring stability for the employment of thousands of workers and our collective ability to make a significant economic contribution to our community.
Community Engagement
Community engagement is a large part of who we are and we actively encourage our members to get involved, providing many opportunities to engage with our local community!
Thanks to member involvement and a passion for their communities, LHBA is actively involved with many community organizations and drives:
- Business Cares Campaign supporting the London and Area Food Bank
- Charity Fundraising through our Annual Constructors Cup - Recreational Soccer Tournament. Health and Homelessness Fund for Change (2024 & 2025), Youth Opportunities Unlimited (Joan’s Place) (2023)
- Maintenance of LHBA’s Cancer Survivor Garden
- Sock collection for #519Pursuit
- Kids Kicking Cancer Canada - Heroes Circle support through LHBA’s Green Home Build
- 50-50 tickets and Parade of Renovations supporting Threads of Life
- Ongoing member sponsorships and volunteering towards promoting careers in the trades to students
Leading Insights and Updates
LHBA partners with industry experts and associations like LEEP, CHBA, London Chamber of Commerce and Building Knowledge to offer members workshops, webinars and training on a range of relevant and timely topics throughout the year.
Recent sessions have included:
- Mechanicals Forum On Air Source Heat Pumps through LEEP
- discussion forum with Hydro One on the modernization of utilities and streamlining of processes to support the needs of today’s home builders
- review of leading consumer research into the behaviour and media habits of renovation-ready homeowners in London and St Thomas with CHBA
- LEEP Walls and Enclosures Technology Seminar
- LEEP Windows Technology Seminar
- and a feedback session with the City of London on their Mobility Master Plan - London’s first fully integrated mobility plan which considers all forms of mobility.
Leading Insights and Updates
LHBA is dedicated to ensuring our members are at the pulse of what’s going on in the industry by delivering industry and municipality related news, health & safety, local and provincial government technical notices and industry specific training & development.
Updates are delivered through email, video, webinars and member breakfast, luncheon and dinner events with speakers such as City of London Mayor Josh Morgan, experts from Western University, CHMC, Smart Prosperity Institute, Building Knowledge and Google.
Recently members have heard from speakers on:
- The current political landscape
- AI in home building
- London’s Growth Survey
- Politics, Policy and London’s Housing Crisis
- A new report by the Smart Prosperity Institute commissioned by LEDC digging into the employment prospects for the construction industry from 2023-2031
- London Hydro’s timelines and infrastructure plans to cope with upcoming building code changes for more green standards, the city’s climate action emergency plan, the significant push for EVs, the intensification that may come with additional dwelling units, and broad interest in greater electrification.
- What to expect for code changes over the next year and what impact that might have your business.
- And community updates from St. Vincent’s, Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School unique student build program, Business Cares, London Children’s Museum, and Youth Opportunities Unlimited (YOU).
Social Events
Many of our members take advantage of the wide variety of monthly member events to network and learn.
Recent events have included networking at the London Brewing Cooperative and the Beer Kitchen, social events at BATL AXE and Palasad, Breakfast, lunch and dinner events with insights from a variety of speakers at Sunningdale Golf Club, The London Hunt Club, Boler Mountain, Ivey Business Centre and The Chef’s Table and sporting events including London Knights and London Lightning evenings.
Savings Programs & Preferred Rates
LHBA members benefit from savings programs and discounted rates and on a variety of products and services through our national association.
Professional Edge
Take advantage of the LHBA, OHBA and CHBA logos, respected signs of credibility and high standards to consumers. Reach out to our office for access.
Members Only Info Hub
As a member, you have access to the LHBA Info Hub to view and register for member events, share your contact information with other members, access vital resources, ensure you are up to date with the latest industry information and view your account to update personal information.
Info Hub Highlights:
- My Info - update your contact details directly from the Info hub!
- My Directory Listing - View, update and personalize your company's LHBA Website Directory Listing. Personalize your information page with a company description, location details, logo, photos and contact details.
- Member Directory - this 'members only' hub allows you to search for other LHBA members and contact details.
- Events - find out what's next on our events calendar. You can register for one or all of our events directly from the events section.
- Resources - being part of our association includes access to key sites, documents and other information to help you thrive in our community. Check out the continually updated resource area to learn more.
Promotional Opportunities
LHBA also actively promotes its members through our website, business and where we are building listings, social media, digital and print advertising, local radio, ongoing relationships with local London and area magazines (London Inc. Magazine, Lifestyle Magazine, Our Homes Magazine) and more.
Opportunities include:
- Internet marketing to members and consumers on our interactive website
- RenoMark™ listing (for renovator members) through renomark.ca
- Annual Lifestyle Home Show
- E-mail advertising on the template used for all our e-mails and newsletters to members
- Member Spotlight table displays at events held for members
- Listings and advertising in the annual CHBA Membership Directory that is provided free to members, consumers, libraries and government officials
- Corporate sponsorship opportunities at member and consumer events
- Contact list of all members through our Members-Only Info Hub.
Member Fees
And Application
We invite you to submit an application for membership using our digital application form. Once submitted, your application and references will be reviewed by our Board and a notification will be sent to our membership as a part of the approval process.
LHBA’s Membership year runs from September 1 to August 31, however there’s never a bad time to join, LHBA offers pro-rated membership rates.
Full Membership Fees Breakdown
(September 1, 2025 – August 31, 2026 – pro-rated fees available)
- $371.00 (CHBA)
- $500.00 (OHBA)
- $709.00 (LHBA)
- $1,580 +HST Total
