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Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) is a national association representing
23,000 merit shop construction and construction-related firms in 79 chapters
across the United States. ABC's membership represents all specialties within
the U.S. construction industry and is comprised primarily of firms that
perform work in the industrial and commercial sectors of the industry. |
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FRSA's purpose is to foster and encourage a high standard of business
ethics among its members and to inform the general public of the importance
of doing business with competent and ethical firms. FRSA encourages quality
through research, education, and recognition of competence. |
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Florida AGC Council |
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Florida Homebuilders Association |
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The Center for Disaster Risk Policy (CDRP) provides technical assistance
and emergency management related program and information system development
to government organizations. CDRPs continuing mission is to identify, develop,
and promote best practices in emergency and public management. CDRP is a
public service organization within the College of Social Sciences at Florida
State University. |
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The people of DCA are dedicated every day to making Florida a better place
to call home. Our mission is to assist Florida communities in meeting the
challenges of growth, reducing the effects of disasters and investing in
community revitalization. |
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FEMA's continuing mission within DHS is to lead the effort to prepare
the nation for all hazards and effectively manage federal response and recovery
efforts following any national incident. FEMA also initiates proactive mitigation
activities, trains first responders, and manages the National Flood Insurance
Program and the U.S. Fire Administration. |
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The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR)
is a $1.5 billion agency regulating one million professionals and businesses
across some 200 licensee categories. |
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The FBMA represents construction material suppliers and many of our
members assisted in getting products to areas of the state that were experiencing
shortages after last year's wave of hurricanes. |
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This Association is organized to promote the interests of contractors
who are engaged in the industry of heating, ventilation, air conditioning
and refrigeration in the state of Florida. |
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The Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) is a national nonprofit
initiative of the insurance industry to reduce deaths, injuries, property
damage, economic losses and human suffering caused by natural disasters.
Its engineering team has recommendations for rebuilding and retrofitting
homes to improve their resistance to natural disasters. IBHS also sponsors
the Fortified for safer living program, which specifies construction,
design and landscaping guidelines to increase a new home's resistance
to natural disaster from the ground up. |
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The Florida Swimming Pool Association serves as the coordinating organization
for the 17 chapters of The Association of Pool & Spa Professionals
in Florida. Member companies consist of swimming pool/spa builders, service
companies, retail stores, manufacturers, distributors and firms allied
with the aquatics industry. Florida Swimming Pool Association Mission:
To improve the quality of the professional pool industry in Florida. |
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AIA Florida involves its members in a unified, organized statewide effort
to benefit the architecture profession. Its mission is to "unite,
educate and position architects to lead the shaping of Florida's future."
AIA Florida members are dedicated to helping Florida meet growth challenges
and mitigating the effects of natural disaster for Floridians. |
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The Federal Alliance for Safe Homes - FLASH, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c)3
organization dedicated to promoting disaster safety and property loss
mitigation. Our missions is to promote life safety, property protection
and economic well-being by strengthening homes and safeguarding families
from natural and manmade disasters. |
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The mission of the Alarm Association of Florida is to promote professional
standards for the low voltage and alarm industries through education and
training; to maintain a code of ethics protecting the public and public
safety; to enable policies reducing alarm dispatch. |
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The goal of the National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA) is to
preserve and promote the art of roofing application through continual
education, professionalism and adherence to the highest standards. NRCA
supports professional conduct and encourages open competition and the
free enterprise system. NRCA mission is to provide information and education
necessary for its members to run successful businesses and to provide
consumers with the best available technology and business practices. Our
philosophy is that members of NRCA serve the profession best by serving
the public first. NRCA serves members and consumers in all fifty states
as well as Puerto Rico. |
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NAHB is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association whose mission is
to enhance the climate for housing and the building industry. Chief among
NAHB's goals is providing and expanding opportunities for all consumers
to have safe, decent and affordable housing. As "the voice of America's
housing industry," NAHB helps promote policies that will keep housing
a national priority. Founded in 1942, NAHB is a federation of more than
800 state and local associations. About one-third of NAHB's 220,000 members
are home builders and/or remodelers. The remaining members are associates
working in closely related fields within the housing industry, such as
mortgage finance and building products and services. |
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The Florida Small Business Development Center Network (FSBDCN) supports
Florida's small business owners and entrepreneurs through one-on-one,
confidential counseling covering financial, managerial, operational and
other business functions at no cost to the client, training in every business
function and sub-function, and by providing on-line and off-line information
sources. |
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The purpose of The Construction Licensing Officials Association of Florida
is to promote the protection, health, safety and welfare of the public,
by the development, maintenance and adoption of local construction licensing
laws, including but not limited to testing, insurance requirements and
financial responsibility. |
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The Florida Wall & Ceiling Contractors Association promotes the free
enterprise systems with the construction industry in Florida; promotes
the full wall and ceiling industry in Florida; advances honorable relationships
between and among businesses in the wall and ceiling industry in Florida;
and takes such steps as shall be necessary under the law to encourage,
develop, and protect the building industry, especially the wall and ceiling
portion of that industry. |
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The mission of the Florida Air Conditioning Contractors Association
follows: To foster, promote and protect the interest and welfare of its
members, the industry, and the public, which it serves; To promote and
support local, state and federal legislation which will be mutually beneficial
to air conditioning contractors and consumers. To use every reasonable
effort to be sure that the interests of air conditioning contractors and
the general public are given proper consideration in the drafting, enactment,
and enforcement of all laws and regulations which may affect them; To
use reasonable precautions in an endeavor to protect the general public
against the sale of misbranded merchandise and to eliminate misleading
advertising; To accumulate and distribute trade information, encourage
better business methods and generally to advance the interests of air
conditioning contractors and the successful operation of their local chapters;
To cooperate with schools and colleges in expansion of courses of education
training specifically designed for the air conditioning industry; To serve
as a statewide clearing house for the accumulation, exchange and dissemination
of information and data, ideas and suggestions and services of all types
which may be helpful and beneficial to individual air conditioning contractors
and their local chapters; and To discourage and oppose on a state level
all fraudulent, fake, illegitimate solicitation schemes. |
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The Florida Association of Electrical Contractors is the voice of the
electrical industry in Florida. Made up of Electrical Contractors and
Industry Allies, FAEC represents the needs and concerns of the electrical
contractor, not only as they relate to the trade, but also as a businessperson.
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The mission of the American Society of Landscape Architects is to lead,
to educate and to participate in the careful stewardship, wise planning
and artful design of our cultural and natural environments. |
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The purpose of the Florida Section of ASCE is the advancement of civil
engineering knowledge and practice; the cultivation of friendly
relations with all engineers; the maintenance of high professional
standards; and the cooperation with other engineering societies with a
view to promoting the general welfare of the engineering profession and
the American Society of Civil Engineers. |
