Professional Development at ABC
Earn Your Credits Where the Whole Industry Already Gathers
The Atlantic Builders Convention is one of the few regional events where planners, attorneys, and construction professionals can fulfill licensing and certification requirements in a single place — alongside two days of exhibits, networking, and the people who shape New Jersey's housing industry.
Why it Matters
Most professionals in the building industry carry a credential that has to be renewed — and renewal almost always means logged hours of continuing education.
For a New Jersey land use attorney, that's CLE. For a certified planner, it's AICP Certification Maintenance. For a constructor, it's CPC continuing education. Those hours usually get collected piecemeal: a webinar here, a lunch session there, often on topics chosen for convenience rather than relevance. ABC's education program is built the other way around. The seminars exist because the subjects — land use, affordable housing, environmental compliance, redevelopment, construction law — are the live issues in New Jersey homebuilding right now. The credits follow the substance, not the reverse. You earn hours on the regulations and case law you actually work under, taught by the practitioners arguing them.
The Case for One Event
Three Reasons Professionals Earn Their Hours at ABC
01
Relevant by Design
Sessions track the New Jersey issues you practice in — the Fourth Round of affordable housing, stormwater and environmental rules, redevelopment, site remediation — not generic national filler.
02
Multiple Credentials,
One Trip
Planners, attorneys, and construction professionals sit in the same rooms. A single registration can move the needle on more than one credential — and on disciplines that rarely share a program.
03
Taught By the People in the Trenches
Panels are led by the land use attorneys, engineers, and developers handling these matters in New Jersey. The continuing education is a byproduct of genuine industry expertise.
The Three Credit Types
What Each Credential is — and Why ABC Sessions Qualify
ACIP
CM Credits
AICP Certification Maintenance
For certified planners
The American Institute of Certified Planners is the professional certification arm of the American Planning Association. Planners who hold the AICP credential are required to complete Certification Maintenance (CM) credits during each reporting period to keep their certification active, including specific minimums in ethics and law.
ABC's land use and policy sessions are a natural fit for CM credits. Programs on zoning, redevelopment, affordable housing obligations, and the planning implications of New Jersey's environmental rules speak directly to the work certified planners do — and the law-themed panels can help address the law requirement that pure-practice webinars often don't.
Who this is for: AICP-certified planners and planning staff at firms, municipalities, and authorities who need CM credits tied to real New Jersey land use practice.
CLE
NJ Attorneys
Continuing Legal Education
For New Jersey attorneys
New Jersey attorneys are required to complete Continuing Legal Education credits on an ongoing reporting cycle, including a portion in ethics and professionalism. CLE is how the bar keeps practitioners current as statutes, regulations, and case law shift — which, in real estate and land use, they do constantly.
This is where ABC is unusually strong. The convention draws many of the state's leading land use, real estate, environmental, and redevelopment attorneys as panelists, and the legal-trends sessions are built around the most recent significant changes affecting how property gets developed in New Jersey. For a real estate or land use attorney, few rooms in the state hold this much relevant CLE at once.
Who this is for: New Jersey attorneys in real estate, land use, environmental, redevelopment, and construction law looking to earn CLE on the issues they litigate and counsel on.
CPC
Construction
Continuing education for CPC designees
For construction professionals
The Certified Professional Constructor designation recognizes constructors who have met defined standards of experience and examination, and it carries an ongoing continuing-education obligation to maintain the credential. Those hours are meant to keep certified constructors current on the codes, methods, and regulatory environment they build within.
ABC's construction-focused sessions — building code updates, energy and clean-construction incentives, technical and compliance programming — map to that obligation. For a CPC designee in New Jersey, the program offers continuing education grounded in the codes and incentive programs governing local projects, rather than abstract national coursework.
Who this is for: CPC designees and construction professionals who need continuing education connected to current New Jersey building codes and construction practice.
Earning Credits, Step by Step
How continuing education works at ABC
The accredited line-up is set fresh each year, so the mechanics matter more than any single session. Here's how to plan around credits, whatever the current program looks like.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions continuing education at ABC
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