Course Summary:

Improving Residential Building Inspection Skills

Course #L038
December 7-8, 2009
Pyle Center*, 702 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin
Course Fee: $895 Discounts Are Available

Benefits

This course presents inspection and enforcement methods to improve your technical understanding and help you make more informed inspection and enforcement decisions. You will

Improve the efficiency and quality of your inspections
Better understand fire and life safety aspects of inspections
Learn how to inspect footings and foundations
Learn how to inspect conventional wood framing
Gain a better understanding of engineered products
Learn how to identify safety glazing and inspection issues regarding human impact loads, hazardous locations, and skylights and sloped glazing
Learn what materials are approved for siding and roofing

Topics

Improving Building Code Inspection and Enforcement
Improving the Efficiency of Your Inspections
Understanding Fire and Life Safety Aspects
Structural Fundamentals
Understanding Soils and Inspecting Foundations
Understanding and Inspecting Concrete
Inspecting Conventional Wood Framing
Masonry Construction
Inspecting Siding and Roofing
Investigating Approved Materials

Audience

This course will benefit new and experienced

Building officials
Building inspectors
Plans examiners
Others with inspection responsibilities

Earn PDH, LU, CEU

By participating in this course, you will earn 16 Professional Development Hours (PDH), 16 AIA Learning Units (LU) and 1.6 Continuing Education Units (CEU). Learn more about PDH, LU, CEU and state licensing boards.

Instructors

Roger Axel, CBO, Building Official, City of New Hope, New Hope, Minnesota

Russell Thornburg, Building Inspector/Plans Examiner

Dave Peterson, Program Director/Budget Director, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

General Information

Fee Covers Notebook and other course materials, break refreshments, lunches and certificate.

Cancellation Policy No-Penalty Cancellation To cancel your enrollment, you must notify us promptly. Please consider re-enrolling in a future course. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course starts.

Accommodations We have reserved a block of sleeping rooms ($112/single; $127/double, including parking and Madison Taxi's silver cab from the airport) for course participants at the Campus Inn, 601 Langdon Street, Madison, WI. To reserve a room, call 800-589-6285 or 608-257-4391 and indicate that you will be attending this course under group code #86355 “Building Inspection Courses”. Room requests made later than November 15 will be subject to availability.

We have reserved a second block of sleeping rooms ($106/single; $116/double, including airport shuttle, pool and exercise room) for course participants at the Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor's Club, One West Dayton Street, Madison, WI. To reserve a room, call 800-356-8293 or 608-257-6000 and indicate that you will be attending this course under group code 10333. Room requests made later than November 16 will be subject to availability.

Course Location This course will be held at Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison, WI. 608-262-1122

Course Discount If you enroll in Performing Modular and Manufactured Building Inspections #L132 December 9, 2009 Madison, Wisconsin. The total combined fee is $1290. Save $100!

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