Things To Do In SW Florida

Looking for a credit report for your Florida contractor’s license? We can help.

In the state of Florida, you need to provide a credit report to work a State Certified Contractor, the Department of Business & Professional Regulation’s (DBPR) Construction Industry Licensing Board. As an applicant, you need to provide credit reports for yourself and the business entity you want to qualify.

Both credit reports must indicate that local, state, and federal records have been searched and personal credit reports must contain a FICO derived credit score.

Our Florida contractor licensing company is on the Florida DBPR’s List of approved Credit Reporting Agencies, which means we can help you get your credit report.

Our credit reports include:

• FICO Score
• Statement that Public Records have been searched at the Local, State and Federal Levels

Your personal credit report enables the State to decide on your financial responsibility enabling them to make sure that the contractor applying for the license is financially responsible.
The State has required that all companies must have a credit report on file. The fact that it is a new company does not negate the need to have a report run on that company. read more

Technology is changing in every field, including the construction industry. There are lots of new tech trends in the construction industry which will change the future of the field itself.

Here’s some technology being used:

Self-healing concrete – This concrete would add years to a building’s life and help people financially. When water enters the crack, it reactivates bacteria, which then excretes calcite and heals the crack.

Transparent aluminum – This is almost as strong as steel. It looks like glass but is much stronger. It is a see-through metal.

Aerogel insulation – This is semi-transparent and it is almost weightless. It can be used to create thin sheets of aerogel fabric. It has great insulation properties.

Robotic swarm construction – Robots are programmed to build certain design and work together with other robots.

3D printed houses – This is when parts are created off-site and constructing the building at another time.

Smart roads – These roads are helping people driving safer and greener. These roads have sensors and technology that give drivers real-time info, weather conditions, and traffic info.

Bamboo cities – Bamboo cities are made from innovative modular bamboo structures that interlock. It is sustainable construction and a renewable resource that is stronger than steel and more resilient than concrete. As the structure extends, it grows in strength.

Smart bricks – These are modular connecting brick with substantial thermal energy control and reduction in construction costs.

Vertical cities – These are tetris-like buildings of towers for thousands of people.

Pollution-fighting buildings – These are high-rise forest buildings designed to tackle air pollution. These buildings are home to over 1,000 trees and 2,500 shrubs to absorb pollution and filter it to make the air cleaner.

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Inspections, of any kind, keep us safe and keep us on track with the task at hand. You want to know the work your doing is being done according to plan and meeting standards and regulations. Inspections should be done throughout the entire construction project on many different things.

What goes on during inspections?

• Making sure all materials and procedures comply with the plan and specs.
• Inspection and documentation of all contractor activities.
• Inspections of installations.
• Looking at drawings and specs and seeing if anything has changed.
• Monitoring contractor’s schedules.
• Inspecting and testing paints, coatings, soils, concrete, etc.
• Review change orders.
• Monitoring and documenting materials received.
• Preparing punch lists and monitoring completion of work.
• Condition surveys of neighboring structures.
• Evaluation of work progress.
• Inspection at the close of defects liability period.
• Quality control inspections
• Environmental inspections
• Health and safety inspections
• And more!

Who does the inspecting? This can be done by a project manager, a member of the contractor’s team, or a consultant. The inspections reports will include details of the person writing the report and who it was for, the location of inspection, the date and time of the inspection, the nature of the inspection, description of any actions taken or needed to be taken.

Proper inspections will keep you on track and allow you to identify problems before they get even bigger.

Want to be part of the contractor world? It’s a rewarding career, and we can help get you licensed.

Click our Florida contractor license  page to learn more or call 239-777-1028 to get started on the contractor license process today. read more

In states with warm weather, people will always need air conditioners and air conditioners will always need to be installed or repaired. To work on ACs, you need to be a HVAC-A contractor.

What is a HVAC-A contractor? According to the Florida Department of Business & Regulation, a specialty contractor is a contractor “is a contractor whose services are unlimited in the execution of contracts requiring the experience, knowledge, and skill to install, maintain, repair, fabricate, alter, extend, or design, if not prohibited by law, central air-conditioning, refrigeration, heating, and ventilating systems, including duct work in connection with a complete system if such duct work is performed by the contractor as necessary to complete an air-distribution system, boiler and unfired pressure vessel systems, and all appurtenances, apparatus, or equipment used in connection therewith.”

Class A HVAC Contractors can execute “contracts requiring experience in the installation, maintenance, repair, fabrication, alteration, extension or design of duct work in connection with a complete system but only to the extent that such duct work is performed by the contractor as is necessary to complete an air-distribution system, boiler and unfired pressure vessel systems, and all appurtenances, apparatus, or equipment used in connection with them.” read more

If you’re thinking about a career in contracting, how about going into the specialty of excavation contracting.  An excavation contractor?  is a contractor whose services fall into the construction, installation and repair of main sanitary sewer collection systems, main water distribution systems, and storm sewer collection systems? If this career sounds intriguing to you, read below for more information about what an excavation contractor does for a living.

An excavation contractor, by definition, is a “a contractor whose services are limited to the construction, installation, and repair, on public or private property, whether accomplished through open excavations or through other means, including, but not limited to, directional drilling, auger boring, jacking and boring, trenchless technologies, wet and dry taps, grouting, and slip lining, of main sanitary sewer collection systems, main water distribution systems, storm sewer collection systems, and the continuation of utility lines from the main systems to a point of termination up to and including the meter location for the individual occupancy, sewer collection systems at property line on residential or single-occupancy commercial properties, or on multi-occupancy properties at manhole or wye lateral extended to an invert elevation as engineered to accommodate future building sewers, water distribution systems, or storm sewer collection systems at storm sewer structures. However, an underground utility and excavation contractor may install empty underground conduits in rights-of-way, easements, platted rights-of-way in new site development, and sleeves for parking lot crossings no smaller than 2 inches in diameter if each conduit system installed is designed by a licensed professional engineer or an authorized employee of a municipality, county, or public utility and the installation of such conduit does not include installation of any conductor wiring or connection to an energized electrical system. An underground utility and excavation contractor may not install piping that is an integral part of a fire protection system as defined in s. 633.102 beginning at the point where the piping is used exclusively for such system.” read more