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Keeping up with
required CE.
Keeping up with continuing education
can be confusing, but reading the Rule
provides guidance.
Question: I’m a new
contractor and have not had to renew my
registration for the first time yet. I know that I
must complete 14 hours of continuing education,
but aren’t there some courses
that I must take? Are they in addition to
the 14 hours or a part of
those hours?
Answer: Florida
Administrative Code Rule 61G4-18.001 contains the
information you’re seeking and states that all
registered contractors and certified contractors
must complete 14 hours of continuing education for
each renewal cycle, and several of those hours are
in required topics. The annual coursework
you are required to complete must include one hour
in each of the following areas: Specialized
or advanced module course approved by the Florida
Building
Commission, or the Board; Workplace safety; Business practices; Workers’
compensation; and Laws and rules regulating the
construction industry.
If your license is held in
General, Building, Residential, Roofing, Specialty
Structure, or Glass and Glazing, then you must
also take a one hour course in wind mitigation
methodologies. The remaining hours may
include any other Department approved course,
which means the hours of required topics are a
part of the 14 total hours you must complete to
renew your license. This is the rule that
we at Gray Systems take very seriously to determine
our 14-hour packages that we put together
for you.
Click
to read the Rule
.
Thanks for asking,
Fred
Gray
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TIME MANAGEMENT!
Time is one of the most
valuable assets a project manager possesses. Is
there a project manager out there who hasn’t
needed more time, "at one time or
another"?
Time is the “how long”
for the project’s objectives, generally measured
in the days, weeks, months or even years necessary
to reach completion. Timing is the “when,
where, how and why” necessary to control the flow
of the project and manage the time.
Project
managers implement the many different operations
of a construction project according to a detailed
and intricate timing schedule that requires
coordination and strict control over the project
plans. A successful project manager employs
the most efficient use of time, which he or she
has learned from experience and often times, from
past failures.
Project managers must pay
a great deal of attention to the management of
time, because time is much more than how long it
takes to begin and end a construction
project. Time includes coordinating the many
sub-projects of a project, with critical decisions
about when each sub-project must begin and
end. Many sub-projects require the
completion of another sub-project before they are
undertaken, all of which is achieved through
timing.
Since timing is
everything, time is used in measuring
performance. The project manager must meet
performance milestones within the project, keeping
a close eye on both the timing and
time.
QUALIFYING
AGENTS
The role of an agent
for a contracting business is governed within
the Florida statutes as being either primary or
secondary. A first glance at the definitions found in
section 489.105(4) and (5) may have you scratching your
head, wondering “what’s the difference?”
Under
both sections, primary and secondary qualifying agents are
persons who possess the requisite skill, knowledge, and experience,
have the responsibility, to supervise, direct, manage, and control
…and then the difference appears.
The primary
qualifying agent’s duties relate to the contracting activities of
the business organization with which he or
she is connected. The primary qualifying agent has
the responsibility to supervise, direct, manage, and control construction
activities on a job for which he or she
has obtained the building permit.
The secondary qualifying agent’s duties relate to
construction activities on a job for which he or
she has obtained a permit.
Both types of agents must possess technical and personal
qualifications that have been determined by investigation and examination
as attested by the department.
Click
to read the
statute.
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