Instructor: Thomas Martineau

Board: Florida Board of Architecture and Interior Design (BAID)

Credit Hours: 1.00
Rating:
8 ratings

Approval Number: J607LGL13
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Course Description


FBC Course# 803.0

This one hour online distance learning course is designed to give the design and construction professional insight into the Residential and Commercial Florida Building Code 5th Edition (2014) Energy Conservation. It covers in detail the fundamental changes to the code, six significant changes to the residential and four significant changes to the commercial portion of the code. This course offers no opinions concerning any motivations behind these code changes. We leave it up to others to debate the potential impacts, merits or drawbacks, if any, of these new code provisions. Instead, minor as well as major changes are explained as objectively as possible within the scope of this course to clarify the extent and detail of the code modifications, the new provisions, or the deletions as these are now incorporated in the residential part of the 5th Edition of the FBCEC.



Course Objectives


Upon successful completion of this course, participants will have a better understanding of the Florida Building Code 5th Edition (2014) Energy and be able to:

  • Describe the changes, additions and deletions reflected in both the residential and commerial portions of the FBCEC 5th Edition
     
  • Explain details of specific changes, additions and deletions contained both the residential and commerial portions of the FBCEC 5th Edition
     
  • Discuss the most impactful and notable changes in the residential portions of the FBCEC as identified in the Florida Building Code
     
  • Identify the FBCEC’s Appendices and their contents and be aware of changes deferred by the Florida Legislature


Instructor Bio


Mr. Martineau is a licensed, registered architect, currently self-employed as facility management consultant (specialties facility planning, programming and maintenance, school safety and security, facilities condition assessment, facilities utilization, school kitchen and cafeteria management). He has conducted or served as team member of over fifty individual consulting efforts with K-12 schools across the United States.

As the President of Productivity house Inc since 1988, Tom has been in charge of market research and consulting services in facilities planning, programming, management, operations and security. In the past he has served as a major consultant to Shimizu Construction Company, 3M Company, AMP Corporation, Battelle Memorial Institute, CPA Associates, Ransomed Productions, MGT of America, and Evergreen Solutions, LLC. He continues to work with Prismatic Services, Inc., and International Making Cities Livable Council.

Tom has also served as a Professor of Architecture from 1985 to 2007. He was Professor and Director, at the Institute for Building Sciences, until 1992, then Professor of Architecture until Fall 2007. As the first full-time IBS Director, he developed and managed research contracts exceeding $1 million. The largest projects included recommendations for restructuring Florida's building construction regulations, and creating a maintenance protocol for the facilities inventory of the Florida Department of Transportation. He also established the first multiclient program on Intelligent Buildings.

As a professor, he taught in the areas of professional ethics, materials and methods of construction, lighting, acoustics, heating and cooling, design studio, and introduction to architecture.

In post-retirement, Tom taught as Adjunct Professor in lighting, acoustics, heating, cooling, and facilities management.



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