Industry Associations of Honest Abe Log Homes
The Log and Timber Homes Council is a national organization with membership comprised of manufacturers of log homes and timber frame homes. The Council is part of the Building Systems Councils, a council of the National Association of Home Builders. Council members are log home manufacturers and producers who have united to develop and promote quality building systems and ethical business practices by participation in both mandatory and voluntary council programs designed to benefit log home customers, including an excellent buyer’s guide. For decades, Honest Abe has been a long-standing member and contributor of this council. In recent years, Honest Abe’s President, Josh Beasley, served as the council’s president. Currently, Jeff Clement, Vice President of Honest Abe, is serving on the Steering Committee of the Council. Honest Abe’s profile on the LHC web site can be found here.
Timber Products Inspection, Inc. (TPI) is an independent inspection, testing and consulting company with expertise in all phases of the wood products industry. TPI provides quality auditing services in the areas of sawmills, drying, component fabrication as well as value added processes such as pressure treating and gluing. Each month, a TPI representative will visit our manufacturing facility unannounced, and will spot grade our logs. This practice is done to ensure that Honest Abe’s certified graders are applying accurate grades to our logs, ensuring a high level of quality control in our homes.
The National Association of Home Builders is a Washington, DC-based trade association representing more than 235,000 residential home building and remodeling industry members. Known as “the voice of the housing industry,” NAHB is affiliated with more than 800 state and local home builders associations around the country. Honest Abe has been a dedicated member through our local branch, the Home Builders Association of the Upper Cumberland since the mid 1980s.
The mission of the Better Business Bureau is to promote and foster ethical relationships between businesses and the public through voluntary self-regulation, consumer and business education and service excellence. Honest Abe Log Homes has been an accredited member of the BBB since 1994 with a A+ rating.
The BBB envisions a marketplace where all buyers and sellers can trust each other, committed to a role as the partner of choice for business and consumer trust issues, accepting a role as the leader in advancing marketplace trust.
