Contractors Institute

This course bundle of individually approved courses will help fulfill the Florida Electrical Contractors Licensing Board CE requirements for 1 hr workers’ compensation, 1 hr workplace safety, 1 hr business practices, 1 hr advanced building code, 7 hrs technical, and 3 general hours totaling 14 hours. Please note that these courses are also available individually. If you are an alarm system contractor or you perform alarm system contracting, you are required to take 2 hours of false alarm prevention in your 14 hours. If this is your first renewal cycle and/or you have not yet taken the 4-hour Core Code within the first 2 years of licensure, please call us before signing up for any online courses. Licensees for other boards may have additional defined hours required by their respective boards.

This a course bundle. All of these 1 hour courses are available separately and are individually approved. This bundle includes:

This collection of individually approved course modules will fulfill the updated defined hour CE requirements of the Construction Industry Licensing Board. Please note that these modules are also available individually.

This is a course bundle. All of these courses are available separately and are individually approved. This bundle includes:

If this is your first renewal cycle and/or you have not yet taken the 4-hour Core Code within the first 2 years of licensure, please call us before signing up for any online courses.

This collection of individually approved course modules will help fulfill the Electrical Contractors Licensing Board defined CE requirements for workers compensation, workplace safety, business practices, advanced building code, and 1 technical of the required 7 technical. Please note that these modules are also available individually. In addition to the hours provided in this module, an electrical contractor will need 6 additional technical hours and 3 general hours (can include any type of hours) for a total of 14 hours. If an alarm system contractor or you perform alarm system contracting, you are required to take 2 hours of false alarm prevention in your 14 hours. If this is your first renewal cycle and/or you have not yet taken the 4-hour Core Code within the first 2 years of licensure, please call us before signing up for any online courses.

This is a course bundle. All of these 1-hour courses are available separately and are individually approved. This bundle includes:

This course will provide contractors and construction industry professionals with an overview of construction math, blueprint reading, and business math in addition to workers’ compensation and workplace safety topics. The course includes topics on: using calculators, understanding general math operations used in construction business practices; working with formulas; geometry; fundamentals of blueprint reading and plan interpretation as they relate to estimating; and basic financial mathematics used in understanding financial statements and ratios.

This course provides electrical contractors and construction industry professionals with an overview of construction and electrical math, business math, and blueprint reading. Specific formulas for electrical contractors include: voltage drops, series and parallel resistor and capacitor circuits, derating ampacities, and box and conduit fills.

This course will provide construction, electrical contractors, code officials, and construction industry professionals with instruction about ethics and ethical conduct and management for members of the construction industry who contract, hire, inspect, review, design, and build.

This course will provide construction and electrical contractors and construction industry professionals with an introduction to contract and subcontract terms, provisions and clauses common to contracting.

This course will provide electrical contractors with an in-depth understanding of overcurrent protection provided in circuit breakers. Standard circuit breakers, GFCI circuit breakers, and AFCI circuit breakers are discussed. How they work, the evolution leading to Arc Fault Circuit Interrupters, and the present and future requirements are also discussed. The course is based on the current NEC (NFPA 70) code and UL 1699.

This course will provide construction contractors and construction industry professionals with an overview of wind mitigation methodologies specific to opening protection, gable-end bracing, secondary water barriers, roof-to-wall connections and roof-deck attachments during re-roofing as required by Florida Statute Chapter 553 (553.844). The course also provides general, building, residential, specialty structure, roofing, and glass and glazing contractors with the required one hour of wind mitigation methodologies.

This course is designed to provide contractors with one hour of advanced code training, specifically regarding changes and updates to the Florida Building Codes on Building and structural topics.

This course will improve the building code and construction professionals’ knowledge and ability to understand, interpret, and apply the provisions of the American with Disabilities Act and the Florida Accessibility Code.

This course will provide construction, electrical contractors, and construction industry professionals with an overview of Florida’s workers’ compensation law and will give them an understanding of how to apply the provisions of the law to their day-to-day contracting business.

This course will provide construction and electrical contractors and those in the construction industry with an introduction to F.S. 440 Workers’ Compensation requirements, costing and filings.

This course will provide construction industry professionals with an overview of job-site and worker-safety issues including federal safety laws and regulations. This course provides specific facts, examples, and checklists for increasing the student’s awareness of the common major liability issues that results from failing to comply with worker safety and job-site safety issues.

This course is eligible only for General hours from the BCAI, it is not approved for BCAI Laws & Rules credit hours.

This course will provide construction contractors and those in the construction industry with an overview of statutory requirements of Florida Statute 489 Part I and related Florida Administrative Code. This course also meets the one hour Laws & Rules continuing education requirement for Construction Industry Licensing Board license holders.

This course is NOT approved for Construction Board Licenses. The CILB approved Laws & Rules course is RSP-A-1-1.

This course is designed to teach building code professionals the laws and rules governing inspector / plans examiner / building code administrator licensing and business practices in the state of Florida.

This course will improve the building code professionals knowledge and ability to understand, interpret, and apply the provisions of statute and board rule that govern their work environments.

Specifically, F.S. 468 Part XII - Building Code Administrators and Inspectors will be covered, as well as F.A.C. 61G19. F.S. 455 - Business & Professional Regulation General Provisions pertaining to inspectors and F.S. 112 Part III - Code of Ethics for Public Officers and Employees will be discussed.

This course will provide construction contractors and construction industry professionals with an introduction to legal processes by providing an overview of the court process. Topics include elements of a lawsuit, the discovery phase, considerations, damages and penalties, alternate methods of resolution, and responsibility to avoid legal action.

This course will provide construction and electrical contractors and construction industry professionals with an introduction to accounting principles such as types of accounting, chart of accounts, debits and credits, balance sheet, and income statement. Various financial ratios will be explained and demonstrated. Basic payroll processing and issues will be discussed including a demonstration to calculate regular rate of pay. In-house payroll processing versus employee leasing will also be discussed.

This course will provide construction/electrical contractors and construction industry professionals with an introduction to business types, licensing of business entities, and structure management policies and positions for production and risk management.

This course will provide construction contractors and construction industry professionals with an overview of job costing and scheduling with topics including management structure, planning, interdependencies, and resources.