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OUR FIRST TOY DRIVE EVENT OF THE SEASON!
You’ll help make the holiday’s brighter for kids in need in Collier County – and enjoy a wonderful evening of music and fun!

Proceeds from Naples Beach Brewery sales benefit Toys & Joys 4 Girls & Boys CBIA SMC Annual Toy Drive.

The Wholetones! at Mercato on October 2nd
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Thank you to our Gold Sponsor: 2-10 Home Buyers Warranty & Silver Sponsor: The Lykos Group

CBIA Builder Round Table
Collier County Building Official:
Jonathan Walsh CCGM Administrator:
Jamie French CCGM Manager Plans Review
and Inspections: Rich Long

Wednesday, September 17, 2014
3:30-4:30 p.m.
CBIA, 3200 Bailey Lane, Suite 110 Naples, FL 34105
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Have a topic you would like to have discussed?
email Nancy@cbia.net by September 15th

Reservations must be made by 9/12/14
Contact Nancy Vickers at 436-6100 or email your participation to Nancy at nancy@cbia.net.

Goal: To provide a monthly forum for ongoing, constructive dialogue and mutually Acceptable solutions in a collaborative environment.

CBIA Builder-Remodeler Round Table
City of Naples Building Official: Paul Bollenback
City of Naples Deputy Building Official: Craig Mole

Wednesday, October 8, 2014
3:30-4:30 p.m.
CBIA, 3200 Bailey Lane, Suite 110
Naples, FL 34105
CBIA Members Only

Reservations must be made by 10/3/14

Contact Nancy Vickers at 436-6100 or
email your participation to Nancy at nancy@cbia.net.

Click here for informational flyer

Have a topic you would like to have discussed?
email Nancy@cbia.net by October 1st
Goal: To provide a forum for constructive dialogue and mutually
acceptable solutions in a collaborative environment.

The Florida Sales and Marketing Council Sales Academy Hits the Road!
Click here for registration information

Start Your Engines
Give your sales engines a boost by revving up your leads
September 16, 2014
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Miromar Design Center
10800 Corkscrew Rd, Estero, FL 33928

Rev Up Your Social Media by Carol Morgan
Social Media does drive SALES when done right. Rev up your social media program with hands-on tips and real-life practical examples. Action packed with consumer usage trends and the latest developments. Plus, learn the importance of growing a visual identity.

Take Your Website on the Road by Mitch Levinson
You are mobile and so are your buyers! This fast paced world we live in requires lightning speed and strategy if you want to be more than just an arm chair enthusiast. So ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! Let’s gas up that lead generation when we go MOBILE!

REALTORS®: Can’t Live with Them, Can’t Shoot Them! by Kimberly Mackey
If you are the driver, then REALTORS® are the pit crew in the race for sales. You aren’t going anywhere fast without them! This thought provoking perspective on improving your REALTOR® relations teamwork would make Richard Petty himself proud.

Moderator: Carroll Jaskulski

CBIA September Mixer

September 18, 2014
5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
 $15 for CBIA Members~$25 Non-Members
No Walk-Ins Accepted

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Hosted By:
Design Studio By Raymond
990 1st Avenue North
Naples, FL 34102

    Reservations must be received by September 12th
RSVP nancy@cbia.net with payment information

( No Reservations will be accepted after that day)

Earn up to 14 continuing education hours
August 14 & 15th – Naples – Collier County
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Day 1 – 7 CEU’s / PDH’s
Advanced Residential Energy Code Compliance
CILB#0609608/AR#9878165/ECLB#0801134/BOLA#0009494/
FBPE exp4028 – 4 CEU’s (Adv. Code) / PDH’s
Indoor Environmental Quality
CILB#0001749/AR#9876688/FBPE exp4028 – 2 CEU’s / PDH’s
Energy (Residential Buildings)
CILB#0005582/AR#0007391/FBPE exp4028 – 1 CEU / PDH

Day 2 – 7CEU’s / PDH’s
Termites and Proper Construction Practices
OSHA
CILB#0007009/AR#9876599HSW/FBPE exp4028 –1 CEU/PDH
Workers Compensation
CILB#0006539/FBPE exp4028 – 1 CEU/PDH
Financial Regulations for Contracting
(business practice)/CILB#0009749/FBPEexp4028–1 CEU/PDH
Wind Methodology
CILB#0010515/FBPE exp4028 – 1 CEU/PDH
Construction Contracting Regulations
CILB#0010573(laws and rules)/FBPE exp4028 – 1 CEU/PDH
(Day 2 provides only 3 ceh’s for Architects but all 7 for CILB )
CILB / BCAI / BOLA / ECLB 1129 / BOAR / ID 8074 / FBPE exp 4028

Instructor: Craig Miller
For More Information:
Program for Resource Efficient Communities
University of Florida
(352) 392-5684

You Are Invited . . .

How to Best Position Your Company to Avoid, Manage and Resolve Construction Disputes
Tuesday,August 26, 2014
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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Collier Building Industry Association
3200 Bailey Lane, Suite 110
Naples, Florida 34105

RSVP: Nancy@cbia.net or register at www.cbia.net
using your member login.

This seminar is free to CBIA members.
Space is limited. Registration is required.

Speaker
Jason H. Korn, Esq.
Jason Korn is an attorney and shareholder with the 130 attorney law firm of Cohen & Grigsby. He serves as the firm’s managing
director for its Florida office, and is a member of the firm’s construction, litigation, and shareholder and partnership dispute
practice groups. Jason is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in the area of Construction Law and has spent his 23 year legal career
handling complex litigation. Jason was selected again by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (c) 2014 in the fields of construction law, commercial litigation, and bet-the-company litigation (Copyright 2014 by Woodward/ White, Inc., of Aiken, SC). He is a member of the Construction Law Committee of The Florida Bar, and has represented various clients in the construction industry, including developers, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, design professionals, and others.

Join us for a presentation that will address various strategies to help put you and your company in an advantageous position to avoid construction disputes, and to the extent a dispute arises, techniques and considerations to assist you in managing and resolving those disputes to your advantage.

The presentation will focus on:
Contract Provisions legally required disclosures, helpful contract language to protect you from frivolous claims, alternative dispute resolution provisions and techniques, paid-when-paid clauses, indemnification provisions, and more

Construction Liens and Related Pitfalls
legally required notices, “drop dead” response or action deadlines, strategies to preserve a lien, strategies to discharge a lien, how to best respond to various demands, required sworn response, payment requirements, and penalties for misapplication on construction contracts.

Florida’s Construction Defect Act
deadlines for various notices and required responses, inspection requirements, destructive testing, permitted emergency repairs, notice to subcontractors and others, required exchange of evidence or future sanctions, strategies for how to handle a construction defect claim and notice.

Statutes of Limitation
strict time periods to file a claim or lose it, “latent” construction defects, contractual claims, statutory claims, extended time periods for filing certain claims, fraud, and more

Insurance Coverage Issues
duty to provide timely notice, duty to cooperate, duty to defend, sworn statements required by insurers, and how to handle cases involving CGL policies.

Pre-Litigation Considerations to Help Your Company
strategies for formation of protected business entities, avoiding licensing liabilities, unenforceable contracts, fictitious name issues, civil actions for building code violations, treble damages for certain injuries, records policies to protect you, preparation of business records to assist you in future disputes, and safeguarding your data.

 

CBIA Builder Round Table

Collier County Building Official: Jonathan Walsh
CCGM Administrator: Jamie French
CCGM Manager Plans Review and Inspections: Rich Long

3:30—4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
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CBIA

Have a topic you would like to have discussed?

email Nancy@cbia.net by August 15th

Goal: To provide a monthly forum for ongoing, constructive dialogue  and mutually acceptable solutions
in a collaborative environment.

Contact Nancy Vickers at 436-6100 or email your participation to Nancy at nancy@cbia.net.

3200 Bailey Lane . Suite 110 . Naples, FL . 34105
239-436-6100
www.cbia.net

 

 

ICC Flood venting regulations and understanding compliant flood vents
Floods happen. We must mitigate with designs that meet code, and protect our clients and citizens. The seminar objective is to explain the rules. utilizing lots of interesting field data, pictures, and video.

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By City of Marco Island, Growth Management Department

Content Geared Towards
Builders / Contractors
Design Professionals
Surveyors
Floodplain Managers
General Public

When / Where / RSVP
Wednesday August 6th, 2014
10am to 12pm
Community Room, 51 Bald Eagle Dr.
Please contact Chris Sparacino, CFM for questions / directions.
239-389-3947
csparacino@cityofmarcoisland.com

PROVIDER
Smart Vent Products, Inc.
Bruce Sherlock
430 Andbro Drive, unit 1
Pitman NJ, 08071
Phone: 877-441-8368
www.smartvent.com

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this program, the participants will understand the following.
 Understand applicable codes pertaining to Foundation Flood Venting.
 Cover the new ICC regulations ASCE 24-98, ICBO, BOCA, and SCCCI codes, and the National Flood Insurance Program (FEMA) regulations Including TB 1-08.
 Have a thorough knowledge of the new NFIP flood plain Elevation Cer-tificate, including the surveyor’s new responsibility. Calculate the Sq/Ft of enclosed area correctly.
 Review the requirements of an Engineered Opening.
 Understand and appreciate the process of independent evolution of the construction products and their value to architects and code officials.
 Architects, Surveyor, and Builder liability.
 Ventilation in a crawl space. Review open area codes with and without vapor barrier.