New Mexico Contractor Education Courses

15 Hour Text Course 
Anyone engaged in Residential construction-related contracting in New Mexico must be licensed.  Prepare for the Trades exam with this course.

This package contains:

• 8 Hr Text Prep: Law & Business Management
• 15 Hr Audio Prep: Residential Building Course
• Free Video Course:  Social Media for Contractors

8 Hour Text Course  
Regardless of whether you are seeking a residential or a commercial contractor license, you will be required to pass the Business and Law exam.  Prepare for the exam with this course. 

This package contains:

• 8 Hour Text: New Mexico Law & Business Management Course
• Book: NASCLA Contractors Guide to Business, Law and Project Management, 13th Edition
• PSI approved, pre-printed tabs for the book
• Free Video Course:  Social Media for Contractors

Make compliance with dense government safety regulations simple with 29 CFR 1926 OSHA Construction Industry Regulations.  This book provides you with a comprehensive set of the most up-to-date Construction regulations.

Produced by SBCA, BCSI is the truss industry’s guide for jobsite safety and truss performance.  This edition includes the most current information regarding the handling, installation, restraining and bracing of metal plate connected wood trusses.

Carpentry & Building Construction is a comprehensive carpentry book that focuses on residential construction with many procedures also applying to light commercial construction. The informative text provides detailed, heavily illustrated information about materials, tools, and processes, with many step-by-step procedures.  It is recommended for all states as a helpful text in studying for any of the trades exams and is an excellent reference source for contractors to own.

Pre-printed Tabs

This highly beneficial resource fosters energy conservation through efficiency in envelope design, mechanical systems, lighting systems, and through the use of new materials and techniques.  It is the most current information on energy conservation code requirements and is a critical component of any code library.

This comprehensive code for home building combines building, plumbing, mechanical, fuel gas, energy, and electrical provisions into a single resource and uses these provisions to provide detailed insight into the construction of one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses up to three stories high.

Modern Masonry covers the  properties and application of masonry materials and teaches safe and proper procedures for working with brick, block, stone, concrete form construction and flatwork as well as masonry’s impact on the environment.

The NASCLA Contractors Guide to Business, Law and Project Management is organized into 3 sections that focus on:  business planning and start up, fundamentals  that you will need to operate a successful business and information for running the administrative function of your business.

This manual teaches excavation techniques, safety rules, and includes instructions for operating the equipment, trenching, pipe laying, plan reading, estimating and much more.

Installation, repair and estimating for nearly every type of roof covering available today in residential and commercial structures: asphalt shingles, roll roofing, wood shingles and shakes, clay tile, slate, metal, built-up, and elastomeric is covered in this publication with clear illustrations that help answer most roofing questions.

This publication provides insight into proven construction practices that will produce quality concrete construction and is a required or suggested reference document for contractor licensing programs in Alabama, Hawaii, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.