Code Training | New Construction Inspection

Hours: 60 / Access Length: Unlimited / Delivery: Open, Mentor Supported

Retail Price: $995.00

Course Overview:

This course will be discontinued on February 25th, 2019.  No new enrollments will be allowed. 

If you are interested in working for your local city/municipality/county as a building inspector, use our materials to prepare for the International Code Council’s (ICC®) Examination. Learn code provisions from our DVDs of actual real-life scenes and defects. With these DVDs, you will be familiar with what you are inspecting when you get out on site. Also, use our extensive, specially designed and field-tested IRC® Index to increase your chances of passing the ICC® certification exams.

Course Outline:

• 11-Volume DVD Series Code/New Construction Inspection Training. Topics include: General Types of Construction, Footings and Foundations, Building Interior, Building Exterior, Electrical Interior, Electrical Exterior, Supply Plumbing, Drainage Plumbing, General HVAC, Air Conditioning, Unit Related HVAC
• Manual for The New Construction Training Series (450 pages). This manual contains a bound, removable ICC Exam Reference Book that is code cross-referenced, extensively indexed, and can be used when taking the ICC exams. The manual also gives the reasoning behind wood framing and structural issues--almost 400 illustrations. 
• 3-Volume DVD Series Classroom, In-the-Field Training. These DVDs have in-the-field training that takes you out to actual construction sites.
  - Take virtually the same tours of homes at various stages of construction as provided to the students in our classroom.
  - Listen to our instructor provide detailed explanations of the defects that were found in a home at the "4-way" or "rough" stage of construction.
• Homework that accompanies the DVDs and manual. Complete the homework and earn a diploma as documentation that you have completed training.
• Our IRC Index to help find items faster in code books.

No computer needed—just use the DVD player connected to your television.

All necessary materials are included.

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

• Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 4 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

• Windows 7 or higher.
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions
  

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.