2 ADV HSW Credit Hours
Price: $40

This 2 hr. Advanced Florida Building Code Course is required by Architects Registered in Florida.

In accordance with the State of Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation, this two hour course meets the Department’s requirements to complete an Advanced Florida Building Code Module.

The Florida Building course approval number is 1110.0 under Provider # 0004977, and DBPR approval number 9878663. This course is also approved by the AIA (Provider # 50119821) for two continuing education hours.

The course will focus on changes to theBuilding section of the 2020 Florida Building Code (7th Edition ). The course is intended to provide a comparison of the provisions related to the Building section in the 6th Edition (2017) Florida Building Code (FBC) and the 7th Edition (2020) FBC. It is not intended to interpret the provisions contained in either the 6th Edition (2017) or the 7th Edition (2020) FBCB but simply to present the specific changes to be implemented.

The course will focus on what has been identified by Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) as “notable” changes deemed to be the most significant, changes that will have the greatest impact, have been highlighted in yellow and presented using the tables provided by DBPR (for example):

The tables, taken from the DBPR document titled Analysis of Changes for the 7th Edition (2020) Florida Building Code – Changes to the Florida Building Code, provide a side by side comparison of the modifications and new provisions.

NOTE: 1) You should review the full text of the Analysis of Changes for the 7th Edition (2020) Florida Building Code-Changes to the Florida Building Code included at the end of the course.

2) The Analysis section of the DBPR tables has been enlarged to improve the readability.

To see the entire table in context go to the DBPR webpage –
https://www.floridabuilding.org/fbc/Links_to_Code_Resources.html

International Code Council
In order to communicate as clearly as possible, the course also includes content that has been taken from ICC materials. The ICC materials included in this course contains information that is proprietary to and copyrighted c, Inc. The information copyrighted by the International Code Council, Inc., has been obtained and reproduced with permission. The acronym “ICC” and the ICC logo are trademarks and service marks of ICC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.NOTE: Detailed code changes are noted in RED and are taken directly from the ICC code. For the full changes to the (7th Edition) 2020 Florida Building Code, you should go to the ICC website: https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/FLBC2020P1