NEW LICENSE COMING

The Construction Industry Licensing Board has been discussing a new category of license to be created. This license would be called Industrial Facilities Specialty Contractor. This license would be a limited subset of the Certified General Contractor license just as the Tower Specialty license is.

The language as of now for the definition of this license is as follows:

A contractor who is qualified and certified by the board to perform any work involving the construction, repair, demolition, modification and alteration of uninhabitable industrial structures used solely to house pre-manufactured industrial equipment being installed therein by the contractor for energy production, gas production, or chemical production; and construction of habitable or uninhabitable attached accessory use structures not exceeding 1,500 square feet used solely to house related operating and controlling equipment. An industrial facility specialty contractor shall be unlimited in his or her ability to enter contracts for the scopes of work described herein and who may perform such work permitted under this rule, except as otherwise expressly provided in s. 489.113, F.S.

This language has not yet been officially adopted into law, but should be soon.

This new license is in response to those contractors who work on uninhabitable structures other than towers. The applications for CRC, CBC and CGC require that the work performed be on habitable structures only and these contractors cannot show that type of experience.  This provides them with a license that will be acceptable to continue work in their field.

Your team at Licenses, Etc. will let you know when this new law is adopted. Stay tuned for more!