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The following references are recommended for the Virginia Industrialized Building Contracting Exam. Please note that to become licensed, the Class A/B business and law exam must also be passed.
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29 CFR OSHA 1926 Construction Industry Regulations & Standards, January 2026 Edition
$69.99View ProductMake compliance with dense government safety regulations simple with the 29 CFR 1926 OSHA Construction Industry Regulations. Updated through January 2026, the book provides you with a comprehensive set of the most up-to-date Construction regulations.
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Carpentry & Building Construction, Student Edition, 2016 1st Edition
$105.99View ProductThis newly revised edition includes content from McGraw-Hill Construction, where the professionals stay informed on the latest industry developments.
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Pipe & Excavation Contracting Revised Edition
$49.99View ProductThe Pipe & Excavation Contracting Revised Edition manual has been updated and improved to bring it more current with modern earthmoving and trenching equipment, refined excavation techniques, stricter safety rules, and improved materials. Here you’ll find how to enter and succeed in the underground utility business. Includes hands-on instructions for operating the equipment and doing the trenching, pipe laying and connecting work and answers to what causes so many skilled equipment operators and pipelayers to fail when they try to start their own business.
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Guide to Handling, Installing, Bracing Wood Trusses – 2025
$34.99View ProductThe Guide to Handling, Installing, Bracing Wood Trusses – 2025 will provide users, including component manufacturers, designers, framers, and building officials with an easy to understand, and use, guide that provides background information as well as prescriptive recommendations for the safe installation and bracing of floor and roof trusses. The new version of the flagship documents represents a complete revision to the document. Most notably, the historic B-series arrangement of the document has been transformed into a document with a chapter layout including section numbering to streamline content in a chronological order and reduce content redundancy. Additionally, content is presented in a single column text format with updated graphs. The technical content and prescriptive recommendations in the guide were enhanced, clarified, and improved as well.
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SDI Manual of Construction with Steel Deck (3rd Edition) Paperback
$48.99View ProductThe new Third Edition of the Steel Deck Institute Manual of Construction with Steel Deck (MOC3) continues the tradition established by earlier editions to provide information necessary for the proper field usage of steel deck. This edition is reformatted for easier use with updated references, including those for the SDI QA/QC Standard for Quality Control and Quality Assurance of Steel Deck.
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Technical Digest 9: Handling and Erection of Steel Joist and Joist Girders – Paperback
$48.99View ProductHandling and Erection of Steel Joists and Joist Girders contains a thorough coverage of handling and erection procedures, including definitions of the various products, and a description of the preparing, tagging and loading of the joists at the manufacturer’s plant.
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Placing Reinforcing Bars 10th Edition
$104.99View ProductPlacing Reinforcing Bars 10th Edition presents the best accepted current practices in placing reinforcing bars. It is written for apprentices, journeymen ironworkers, and inspectors. Definitive resource for preparing provisions in project specifications. Eighteen heavily illustrated chapters cover: materials, handling bars at the jobsite, general principles for bar placing, splicing, and tying; placing bars in footings, walls, columns, floors, roofs, pavements and highway structures; and coated reinforcing bars.
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Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures 17th edition
$154.99View ProductThis Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures 17th edition, presents the properties of concrete as needed in concrete construction, including strength and durability. All concrete ingredients (cementing materials, water, aggregates, admixtures, and fibers) are reviewed for their optimal use in designing and proportioning concrete mixtures. Applicable ASTM, AASHTO, and ACI standards are referred to extensively. The use of concrete from design to batching, mixing, transporting, placing, consolidating, finishing, and curing is addressed. Concrete sustainability, along with special concrete, including high-performance concrete, are also reviewed.
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2015 International Building Code for One- and Two-Family Dwellings
$186.99View ProductThe scope of the International Building Code® (IBC®) includes all buildings except detached one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses up to three stories.
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Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, 2018 Part 1
$46.99View ProductThe Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code (USBC), 2018 Edition, Part 1 – Virginia Construction Code is a comprehensive set of regulations governing the design, construction, and occupancy of buildings and structures in Virginia. It serves as the primary framework for ensuring public health, safety, and welfare in the built environment across the state.
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Redi-Tag Permanent Tabs – 375 Blank Tabs
$44.99View ProductRedi-Tag permanent tabs are self-sticking and you can print on your laser printer in minutes or write directly on them. Made of heavy duty, durable plastic that won’t tear of curl. Input and format text using Windows® versions of Microsoft® Word and WordPerfect®. Actual size of tab 1-1/8″ x 1-1/4″. 100 tabs per pack.
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Handbook of Rigging: For Construction and Industrial Operations 5th Ed
$136.99View ProductThe Handbook of Rigging: For Construction and Industrial Operations is an industry classic and has been thoroughly revised and brought up-to-date to provide broader coverage of lifting, hoisting, and scaffolding operations. This in-depth guide gives design/construction and facility maintenance professionals must-know information for safe, sound, and efficient application of equipment and materials.
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Virginia Industrialized Bldg Tab pack
$84.99View ProductPreprinted tabs for the
Pre-Printed Permanent Tabs – During your exam, time is of the essence. By having your pages tabbed, you can greatly increase your speed in referencing key exam topics.
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ASME B30.3-2019
$106.99View ProductThe ASME B30.3-2019 applies to “construction tower cranes” and “permanently mounted tower cranes” that are powered by electric motors or internal combustion engines and that adjust their operating radius by means of a luffing boom mechanism, a trolley traversing a horizontal jib, or a combination of the two. The cranes may be mounted on “fixed bases” or “traveling bases” and may have tower and supporting structure arrangements that permit the crane to climb in a structure being built or that permits’ increasing the crane’s tower height as the structure rises. Variations of the above physical characteristics that provide the same fundamental operating characteristics are included in the scope of this Volume however, the requirements of this Volume are only applicable to the cranes within this scope when they are used in lifting operations. Mobile cranes configured with tower attachments (refer to ASME B30.5) and self-erecting tower cranes (refer to ASME B30.29) are not within the scope of this Volume.
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ASME B30.5 – 2021 Mobile and Locomotive Cranes
$179.99View ProductThe ASME B30.5 – 2021 Mobile and Locomotive Cranes offers comprehensive solutions applying to the construction, inspection, testing, maintenance and operation of mobile and locomotive cranes. It is to be used in conjunction with equipment described in other volumes of the ASME B30 series of safety standards. Careful application of these B30 safety standards will help users to comply with applicable regulations within their jurisdictions, while achieving the operational and safety benefits to be gained from the many industry best-practices detailed in these volumes.
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ASME B30.4 2020, Portal, Tower, and Pedestal Cranes
$104.99View ProductThe ASME B30.4 2020, Portal, Tower, and Pedestal Cranes includes provisions that apply to the construction, installation, operation, inspection, testing, and maintenance of electric motor or internal combustion engine-powered portal and pedestal cranes that adjust operating radius by means of a boom luffing mechanism, that may be mounted on a fixed or traveling base, and to any variation thereof that retains the same fundamental characteristics.
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ASME B30.10-Hooks, 2024
$125.99View ProductThe ASME B30.10-Hooks, 2024 includes provisions that apply to hooks used for lifting and load handling purposes, in conjunction with equipment described in other volumes of the B30 Standard. Hooks supporting a load in the base (bowl/saddle or pin hole) of the hook, are covered.
