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Construction Industry
Workforce-Taskforce
This task force which would be administered by the University of Florida Rinker School of Construction and funded by the building permit surcharge is needed address the existing critical shortage of trained individuals in the building construction and building inspection industry. Goals of the task force are:
To create a consensus path for the training of the next generation of construction workers in Florida;
To tackle the current shortage of a trained construction industry work force which is holding back the full effect of the real estate recovery and to review the current methods and sources of resources available for construction training;
To review the existing state of construction training available in the K-12 system;
To consider training issues relating to building code inspectors to increase the number of qualified inspectors..