The board of directors for the Marble Institute of America (MIA) and the Building Stone Institute (BSI) has unanimously voted at their respective July board meetings to ask the memberships of each organization to approve a two-year joint venture to consolidate operations. The membership vote for each organization is expected to be in late November or early December.
The recommendation to enter into a two-year joint venture came from a task force including representations from both organizations, and was followed by 12 months of discussions about the similarity of missions, focus and duplication of efforts to serve the stone industry.