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April 2005
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Our NEW Office Address is:
246 Crystal Grove Blvd.
Lutz, FL. 33548
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CAM TECH School of Construction. We provide
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know as a Florida Contractor or Future Florida Contractor!
In this issue, we are including information about:
New State Application Information!
The State of Florida has recently changed the application to take the State
exam. You can obtain the new application form
here or apply on-line at
Professional Testing, Inc. . The NEW fee for taking the State exam is
$135 and is payable to Professional Testing, Inc. The application is now
only 2 pages long and is much simpler to complete. NOW is the time
to acquire your State Certified Contractor's license!
Session II begins in Tampa on May 12 and in Orlando and
Ft. Myers on May 13, 2005. We are accepting registrations at this time.
Please Note: The registration deadline for the
June exam is May 20th. Exam site seating is limited and meeting
this deadline does not guarantee your admission to the exam. We recommend you
apply as early as possible.
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about
your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not
with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to
do."
Pope John XXIII
 Classes
for April, June & August 2005 Exams
Classes for the April exams are in
Tampa on April 16th (Business and Finance Special Review for ALL categories)
and April 17th (Technical Review for Generals, Builders, Residentials, Air
Conditioning A & B and Mechanical.) Classes for the June and August
exams begin on May 12th in Tampa and on May 13th in Orlando and Ft. Myers. You can print
out a class schedule in our
Schedule section, you
can register for classes in the
Register section, and you can purchase books in our online
Bookstore!
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"Our
greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas.
If the ideas
are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed."
Dr. David
Burns |
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Construction News
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 Aluminum powder coating uses widespread in architecture
Extruded architectural building aluminum products have a wide variety of uses,
ranging from interior walls and office products, to monumental buildings such as
the new Olympic stadium in Athens. In the latter use, a powder coating was used
to improve the look and durability of the design.
ArchitectureWeek
Memo: Everglades restoration project over budget, behind schedule
The
$7.8 billion Everglades restoration project in Florida has seen nearly $1
billion in cost overruns and has missed nearly every schedule milestone,
according to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers memo on the project's progress. The
memo is part of an update on the status of the project that the Corps is
required to make to Congress by December.
Engineering News-Record
"Do
your work with your whole heart and you will succeed-there's so little
competition."
Elbert Hubbard
 Arizona Cardinals Stadium to break new ground in innovative design
The
new Arizona Cardinals football stadium being built in Glendale, Ariz., near
Phoenix, takes transporter technology to a new level. The 65,000 seat stadium
features bi-parting twin panels on the roof that are the first in the National
Football League to roll on a slope, and the stadium will also feature a playing
surface that can roll out of the stadium to gain exposure to sunlight.
Construction.com
 Concrete
exhibit highlights past, future uses
An exhibit at the National Building Museum, "Liquid
Stone: New Architecture in Concrete," illustrates how
concrete has evolved over the years and continues to change. The exhibit
highlights architects and engineers who have played an important role in
redefining concrete's uses, and looks at more recent and potential future
innovations, including translucent, self-reinforcing and self-consolidating
concretes.
ARCHI-TECH
 Massive effort under way to repair Hurricane-damaged Escambia Bay Bridge
A
team of experts is helping the Florida Department of Transportation in its
massive effort to repair the Escambia Bay Bridge, which is part of Interstate 10
in Pensacola and was heavily damaged by Hurricane Ivan last September.
Associated Construction Publications/Dixie Contractor
Experts: Beyond "sustainable," building design can be productive
Architects are getting much more proficient with the use of the "technofix,"
which involves applying technologies that use up fewer resources, generate less
toxicity and pose less of a threat to natural habitats, to meet environmental
building criteria. But simply being "sustainable" shouldn't be enough, argue the
authors of the new book "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things," who
say nature is a perfect model for how good design can be productive and
abundant.
Architectural Record
Space-Age Compaction Machines Will Roll Into North America by
Early Next Year
If
Captain Kirk were an equipment operator, this would be his chair. On the right,
a single joystick steers. To the left, a color computer screen shows travel
direction and speed. The one-piece console rotates automatically as the operator
moves the machine from forward to reverse. All that’s missing is sound advice
from Mr. Spock.Mounted
independently of the frame, a climate-controlled cab slides 12-in. side-to-side
for visibility. Underneath, two access doors swing open and a hydraulic hand
pump slowly drops the engine block to the ground for service.
www.enr.construction.com
Survey shows workload taking a
toll on many Americans
One-third of 1,003 Americans surveyed reported
feeling chronically overworked, and more than half of the respondents said they
felt overwhelmed at some point in the last month by the amount of work they had
to complete. Multitasking is another problem -- more than half of those surveyed
said they have to work on too many tasks at once in a typical week.
Newsweek
"It
takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
Erma
Bombeck
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