Things are really hopping around the FBPE office. Besides getting back into the swing of outreach by way of face-to-face university presentations, we are also in the middle of licensure renewal.
The Board has been working diligently to complete the rules to implement the Structural Engineering Recognition Program for Professional Engineers and expects to have them finished very soon.
The 2022 Florida Legislative Session ended on Friday, March 11, with one bill of interest to Professional Engineers being passed by both houses.
Hopefully, here’s to a better year than the last two have been. Even with all the challenges of COVID and handling a renewal period during a worldwide pandemic, FEMC survived and persevered.
FBPE’s office receives a lot of inquiries whenever catastrophic events happens. What a lot of engineers and the public don’t realize is the process the Board and its staff must go through when a complaint is filed against an engineer.
I am happy to announce that FEMC staff is now back in the office full time. After an exhausting and stressful year, staff is no longer working remotely. Hooray!
Although most of Florida’s licensees have renewed their license, there are several PEs who have paid for renewal and, for lack of responding to the attestation questions, have not completed the renewal process.
The seventh edition of the Florida Building Code went into effect Dec. 31, 2020, and this has caused some confusion for Professional Engineers who are actively participating in the design of engineering works related to the Code.
With the fall semester getting underway at Florida’s colleges of engineering and engineering technology, FBPE’s outreach efforts also got underway. But this year things are very different because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
I hope everyone is coping well during these unusual times. I want to take a moment to update you all on how we at the Board office are handling regulatory matters during this pandemic.