Residential, commercial, and industrial roofing jobs and flooring carpentry tasks and materials, including green materials and the credentials needed for becoming a green roofer and floor installer, are investigated in this perceptive volume. Students learn about where to acquire basic carpentry skills and skills for using hand and power tools. Post–high school courses and degrees in business management and engineering are advantageous for advancing to supervisory positions or starting a new business. Sidebars include an interview with a contractor, the licensing requirements for independent contractors, and how to go about constructing a roof of a complex home design.

This journey will engage you in dealing with some hard truths and it will take you down a new pathway and new ways of thinking about K-12 education. We now live in a nation that is struggling with deep social, economic and political conflicts. We are all doing our best to resolve these conflicts and to solve the critical challenges that we all face in the Digital Age, but our children and young adults are having a very difficult time in dealing with the realities of their young lives. We wrote this book because we want to engage all of our readers in each local community in frank, honest, down-to-earth, practical conversations about our K-12 schools as the foundation for our constitutional democracy. Without well-educated citizens, our government, our economy and our society will not survive. And this is true regardless of the political beliefs of our readers across the political spectrum.

Don't let your jobs be held up by failing code inspections. Smooth sign-off by the inspector is the goal, but to make this ideal happen on your job site, you need to understand the requirements of latest editions of the International Building Code and the International Residential Code. Understanding what the codes require can be a real challenge. This new, completely revised Contractor's Guide to the Building Code cuts through the legalese of the code books. It explains the important requirements for residential and light commercial structures in plain, simple English so you can get it right the first time.

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