Kent Arola

Kent Arola has owned his residential construction company, Wind River Homes, for more than 20 years. He has served as a BIAW director for 14 years, participating on the Washington Affordable Housing Council since 2012, as a member of the Legislative Policy Committee since 2016, and as LPC chair in 2020. Arola has served in several leadership positions at his local association, Master Builders Pierce, and at the state and national levels. The 2023 BIAW Builder of the Year, Kent has earned numerous awards and accolades, including multiple awards for remodeling excellence from his local and BIAW, Master Builders Pierce Member of the Year in 2015 and Recruiter of the Year four times. He is a Statesman Spike with more than 570 Spike credits.