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The St. Louis Community College at Forest Park Campus, 5600 Oakland Avenue, will be offering during their Spring 2024 semester a course entitled:  Plan Review II, which is a continuation of the course offered this Fall 2023 semester. 

Plan Review II is NOT a blueprint reading course.  It is a study of the IBC (2018 edition), and will continue with the “structural” sections, starting at chapter 13.  

The instructor this year will be Rich Unger, who headed the Construction Management program at Florissant Valley and taught most of their blueprint reading courses, as well as many others.

It will begin January 17th from 5:00 – 7:25 p.m., and continue Tuesdays through May 9th.  This will be a HYBRID course – online and on-campus.  It has two (2) prerequisites, one of which is no longer taught; so, please contact Tom McGovern at [email protected] for the overrides required in order to register.  

NOTE:  He will need your “A” number to access your school file for the override.

The classroom will be W-316 in the Forest Park campus’ West Wing.

For school related questions/concerns, please contact either Tom McGovern, Rich Unger, or Amy Sherwin:  [email protected];  [email protected] or [email protected]

We are happy to announce the details of the 2023 MABOI fall conference. Please see the attached flier and eventbrite sign up page. Hope to see you there!

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We are happy to announce the details of the 2023 MABOI fall conference. Please see the attached flier and eventbrite sign up page. Hope to see you there!

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This seminar is MABOI’s annual free seminar and the election of officers.

A Day of NFPA

1. Overview of NFPA and the NFPA standards-development process
2. NFPA 855 for Stationary Energy Storage Systems, and the hazards of lithium-ion batteries
3. NFPA 241 for construction/demolition/renovation-site fire safety, and recent large fires in buildings under construction
4. An open discussion with the audience about code adoptions, including adoptions at the state and local levels; developing local amendments; and trying to move more toward consistency among jurisdictions to adopt similar editions of the codes. (NOTE: For this part of the presentation, I also reached out to the MO State Fire Marshal’s Office, who may be able to send someone to attend, and give the State FMO’s perspective on this topic as well)  
5. Overview of NFPA 80 (Fire Doors and Opening Protectives), NFPA 105 (Smoke Door Assemblies & Opening Protectives), and NFPA 92 (Smoke Control Systems).
6. General NFPA Updates – NFPA LiNK; New NFPA website; other helpful NFPA resources

Instructor

Bob Sullivan, CFPS Southwest Regional Director | NFPA

Bagels and coffee for breakfast. Lunch will be provided by Sybergs.