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    JHuntress
    PCA101 Course Under Development for May Release in Beta
    Topic posted March 4, 2010 by JHuntressSuper Contributor, last edited January 19, 2012
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    Title:
    PCA101 Course Under Development for May Release in Beta
    Content:

    We are currently working with about 60 professionals on a PCA101 course to cover the following topics:

    1. Intro, History, Purpose and Scop of PCAs
    2. The ASTM PCA Standard  Guide
    3. Major Property  Types
    4. Costs and Cost Tables
    5. Site Elements
    6. Structural Frame and Building Envelope
    7. Roof
    8. Interior Elements
    9. HVAC
    10. Electrical
    11. Plumbing
    12. Vertical Transportation
    13. Life Safety/Fire/Building  Fire Code comp.
    14. ADA and Handicapped Accessibility
    15. Seismic
    16. Amenities and Ancillary Structures
    17. Conducting the Site Visit
    18. Documentation/Mun Off/Interviews
    19. Additional Considerations
    20. Professional Liablity and Ethics
    21. Writing the Report
    22. Managing the Process

    This course will be about 6 weeks long and similar to EDD101.  If you are unfamilar you can see more on this page.  If you have any ideas or are interested please email Jack Huntress.

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    • FStephenMasek
      posted March 10, 2010 by FStephenMasekContributor

      I was an active member of the original task group and wrote parts of the original ASTM E2018 PCA standard.

      By six weeks, do you mean "classroom" weeks? 

      I'd suggest that a good course must include hands-on field training actually performing PCAs on a vareity of buildings. 

       

       

    • JHuntress
      posted March 10, 2010 by JHuntressSuper Contributor

      Stephen, thank you for the post.    We are only doing online learning for PCA101.  A few things come to mind.

      First, we'd very much welcome and appreciate your involvement or feedback in the creation of this course.  All are welcome!

      Second, we are not disillusioned about what this course will be able to do.  In my opinion this course should help firms with about 40% of the overall training their staff will need.  Our goal is standardized, baseline, nationwide and widely available (hence online) training.  No question firms will need to add a layer on top of this including hands on experience.

      Third, we incorporate social (online discussion forums to simulate classroom discussion - asyncronously) and blended learning (self paced coursework along with live webinars) to try and mimic, to the best of our ability, a classroom experience.  We did this last year with the EDD101 course which seemed to work pretty well.

      Again, we'd welcome your thoughts, feedback and involvement.  Just email me at jhuntress@edrnet.com if you'd like to get some more information via email.

    • JHuntress
      posted March 30, 2010 by JHuntressSuper Contributor

      We are now seeking people interested in evalutating the BETA version of this course scheduled for launch on May 3rd.

      If you are interested, please send me an email at jhuntress@edrnet.com.  

      There is no cost, we simply ask that you provide feedback and help us catch issues and potential errors/mistakes with the course.

    • JHuntress
      posted April 8, 2010 by JHuntressSuper Contributor

      Today we finished two modules....only 21 left go!

      Three weeks and counting to the release of PCA101 in BETA!!

    • RErickson
      posted April 23, 2010 by REricksonMember

      Jack, will you be adding ASTM 24707 to the PCA modules?