Louisiana Residential Contractor Continuing Education and Louisiana Residential Contractor License Exam Prep

Louisiana Residential Contractors

Our Louisiana residential contractor continuing education covers the newest and hottest topics in the field. The lessons will cover topics such as green building, osha regulations, plan reading, concrete, roofing, and mold prevention. Green building is a construction practice that promotes economic health, the community, and the enviroment. This uses technologies such as wind power generators, solar power panels, and recycled wood floors. And mold prevention reviews removal of mold, preventative plans, and common mold problems in new construction.

We are currently developing new Louisiana residential contractor continuing education courses. Check back often for the new courses as we will continue to provide the best online continuing education anywhere. The continuing education courses are beneficial for Louisiana home builders, Louisiana custom home builders, and Louisiana residential contractors.

American Contractors Exam Services also offers Louisiana residential contractors license exam prep. We can help you pass the Louisiana residential contractors license test and keep you license current with our Louisiana residential contractor continuing education. Look at the classroom schedule for dates and locations for the Louisiana residential contractor license exam prep. These live classes are taught by inspectors, industry leaders, and instructors with multiple years of experience. These Louisiana residential contractor continuing education courses will be available shortly.

Green Building - Topics that will be covered are wind power generators, rainwater harvesting, recycled wood flooring, permeable pavement, and constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment.
OSHA Standards - The subject matter will cover preventing fatalities, construction regulations for the building industry, fire protection and prevention, first aid and medical attention, and scaffolds.
Plan Reading - This includes effective techniques of plan reading, sites plans, building plans, foundation plans, ceiling plans, framing plans, electrical plans, and architectural symbols.
Concrete - This continuing education program will provide current information on building code requirements for high winds, safe rooms and storm shelters, wind forces and wind resistant construction,concrete masonry, precast concrete, removable forms, and insulating concrete forms
Mold Prevention - Now that mold is a hot topic in the construction industry, this course will cover HVAC systems as a source of mold, new construction and mold, rightsizing, standards and regulations, liability, and litigation.
Roofing - This course will review gable roofs, hip roofs, rise and pitch, overhangs, calculating roof area, and roofing terminology.

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To renew your Residential Contractors License in the state of Louisiana, you are required to complete between 4 and 8 hours of continuing education every year.
Residential Contractors License expires every year on December 31st. Continuing education must be completed prior to expiration.
Continuing education must be completed in courses that cover construction related topics, safety, and business management. Excess continuing education hours may not be carried over.
The course provider will decide on length of course completion records. The licensee will determine the length of time that the certificate of completion will be kept on their record.
Continuing education hours must be submitted with renewal each year. The licensee is recommended to keep a record of course completion for verification to the Board. The Board will randomly audit to verify that licensees are meeting continuing education requirements.

Personal Protective Equipment (OHSA)
(Pending Approval)
1 hour for $10.00 online!

A one-hour course covers the necessity of personal protection in the construction industry. This course is ideal for both the employee and the employer as both are responsible for compliance. Topics reviewed during this class include: assessment of PPE needs, hardhats, gloves, goggles, hearing protection. At the conclusion of this session, the user will have an option to take a seventy five question practice test, used to prove competency in these topics. The exam is very beneficial to employers.

Fair Labor Standards Act
(Pending Approval)
1 hour for $10.00 online!

The purpose of this one-hour course is to provide an overview of the Fair Labor Standards Act. (FLSA) Deciding whether an employee is hired on a salary or hourly basis requires more thought than most employers know. The misconceptions and misunderstanding of this act have led to thousands of dollars being assessed to large and small businesses and sometimes lead to their financial downfall. This course should prevent this by providing enough information for the employer to make wise decisions.

Basic Electricity
(Pending Approval)
1 hour for $10.00 online!

This 1-hour course will cover basic electricity including production, installation, and inspection.

HVAC Systems and Mold
(Approval Pending)
1 hour for $10.00 online!

This 1-hour course will cover mold; the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Workers Comp
(Pending Approval)
1 hour for $10.00 online!

This 1-hour course purpose is to provide the student with a basic overview of workers comp.

Lien Laws
(Pending Approval)
1 hour for $10.00 online!

This 1-hour course covers laws which allow a contractor's unpaid suppliers and workers to make claims against your property for payments that are outstanding to them with respect to work or materials related to your project.

Solar Building
(Pending Approval)
1 hour for $10.00 online!

This 1-hour course involves the modeling, selection and use of appropriate solar technologies to maintain the building environment at a desired temperature range throughout the sun's daily and annual cycles. As a result it generally minimizes the use of active solar, renewable energy and especially fossil fuel technologies.

Green Building
(Pending Approval)
2 hours for $20.00 online!

This 2-hour course introduces the student to green building concepts and practices implemented in building projects from initial site selection through design and construction, equipment selection and sizing, and waste management.

Fall Protection
(Pending Approval)
1 hour for $10.00 online!

This 1-hour course purpose is to provide the student with a thorough understanding of the OSHA requirements for Fall Protection. In 2004, a reported 1,224 construction workers died on the job with 36 percent of those fatalities resulting from falls. The intent of this course is to prevent as many accidents as possible and covers relevant factors including unstable working surfaces, misuse of fall protection equipment, and human error. Proper procedures will be covered including the use of guardrails, fall arrest systems, safety nets, covers and travel restriction systems. At the conclusion of this session, the user will have an option to take a seventy five question practice test, used to prove competency in these topics.

Roofing for Contractors
(Pending Approval)
2 hours for $20.00 online!

This 2-hour course purpose is to provide an overview of roofing. The terminology, basic theory, and codes will be discussed as well as the proper steps for making calculations with regard to roofing. How to calculate a rafter, hip valley, hip rafter and the number of bundles required for a structure are only a few of the math items discussed. The attendee will have the option of taking a 25 question quiz at the end of the course.

Ladders and Stairways
(Pending Approval)
1 hour for $10.00 online!

This 1-hour course purpose is to provide the student with a thorough understanding of the OSHA requirements for the use of Ladders and Stairways. OSHA estimates that there are 24,882 injuries and as many as 36 fatalities per year due to falls from stairways and ladders used in construction. Nearly half of these injuries are serious enough to require time off the job. Working with ladders and stairways is hazardous. This course will address the safe use of such equipment with the intent to prevent as many injuries as possible.

Basic Accounting
(Pending Approval)
1 hour for $10.00 online!

This 1-hour course purpose is to introduce the attendee to the basic concepts of bookkeeping and accounting. While the terms are often used interchangeable, there is a distinct difference in the two terms. While book keeping is concerned with recording data in a certain manner, accounting is more concerned with presenting that data in a prescribed standardized way.

Understanding Payroll
(Pending Approval)
1 hour for $10.00 online!

This 1-hour course teachs the student about the basic principles of payrolls.

Confined Spaces
(Pending Approval)
1 hour for $10.00 online!

This 1-hour course purpose is to provide the student with a thorough understanding of the OSHA requirements for safe entry to Confined Spaces. Many workplaces contain spaces that are considered “confined” because there configurations hinder the activities of any employees who must enter, work in, and exit them. This course will educate those who work in such places and with the intent to keep them safe at all times.

Math for Contractors

2 hours for $20.00 online!

We are now offering our Math for General Contractors online course for $20.00. This course covers advanced concepts such as calculating concrete masonry units, backfill, swell factor for excavation, cylindrical volumes, soil slope, and simple math concepts such as calculating areas and volumes and converting square- and cubic feet to yards These skills are commonly tested on state contractors exams, and knowledge in these areas often makes the difference between a passing and failing score. All of our online seminars are professionally narrated and animated with graphic illustrations of the concepts being taught, and our web-based presentation system tracks your progress so you can work through the materials at your convenience, resuming where you left off with each login. Purchase entitles you to unlimited access to the course for 30 days.

Construction Spanish for Contractors

5 accesses over a 10-day period for $20.00 online!

Our Online Construction Spanish for Contractors course is now available for $20.00. By participating in this online training you will be able to better communicate with your spanish-speaking workers and gain a better understanding of hispanic culture. With the help of our online course, you will learn to read and properly pronounce spanish words and phrases commonly used in the construction industry. This professionally narrated course allows you to read and follow along with your native spanish-speaking instructor. Additionally, at the beginning of the course, the user is allowed to download a printable English-to-Spanish quick reference guide at no additional charge. Purchase entitles the user to 5 accesses over a 10-day period.

Our online instruction system is the easiest possible way to earn your CE credits. Your progress through the course is recorded in our servers, allowing you to work at your own pace.

You may choose to work through the course a little at a time; when you return to www.ceforlouisiana.com and enter your email address and password, you will be taken to the point in the course where you left off.

Check out these references!

2007 National Construction Estimator

Guide to Construction Costs