Learn Live: Professional Ethics

This course explores the history, necessity, application, and challenges of professional ethics by framing them within the context of a hierarchy based on relationships (from closest to farthest removed).

Training: 2021 IBC Significant Nonstructural Changes

This 6 hour seminar reviews and analyzes selected significant changes from the 2018 IBC® to the 2021 IBC®. Discussions will assist code users in identifying the specific code changes that have occurred, and more importantly, understanding the reason behind the change. Finally, it explains those code changes selected due to their frequency of application, special significance or change in application.

Mass Timber Construction: Fire and Connection Design and Special Inspection (New Mass Timber)

New Mass Timber Construction – Fire and Construction Design and Special Inspection covers changes to the 2021 International Building Code allow for construction of mass timber buildings with larger heights and areas than is currently permitted in Types III, IV, and V construction. This presentation will provide an overview of fire safety provisions including sealants at abutting edges and intersections, fire blocking material, and water supply. New provisions for concealed spaces, membrane structures, and fire districts for existing Type IV Heavy Timber construction will also be discussed.

Residential Building Inspector Webinar Series: Chapters 4–10 Part I

This is a single topic within a webinar series which will provide an overview of the basic concepts of the International Residential Code® (IRC®). These concepts provide a basis for the correct utilization of the code. A clear understanding of the identified requirements allows the code user to apply the IRC in specific situations and helps to build an understanding of the intent of the code when asked to make a judgment on code compliance. This course will also help the code user to correctly locate code requirements. It will also provide a basis for the correct use and application of the code as well as to begin to develop a procedure for applying them. This particular webinar will give an overview of Chapters 4 through 10 of the IRC. Participants will have a better understanding of the building planning concepts that are covered in Chapters 4 through 10 of the IRC.