A builder who lived it.
Randolph Scott Bell holds six active Florida licenses — general contractor, roofing contractor, community association manager, real estate, and mobile food — plus a LEED AP credential. He didn't consult his way there; he framed the roofs, cleared the lots, managed the tenants, raised the flock, and rolled the food truck himself. When he advises a business, it's from the job site, not the sidelines.
Construction Defect & Expert Witness Consulting. When a workmanship dispute, a code-compliance question, or a claim of defective construction ends up in front of an attorney, an insurer, or a court, the credential that matters most is having actually built the thing in question. Randolph Scott Bell holds two active Florida licenses that sit directly on top of that kind of dispute — Certified General Contractor CGC1528750 and Certified Roofing Contractor CCC1332751 — earned and maintained through the same state board that licenses the contractor whose work is being questioned. That is the credential base an attorney, a property owner, an association, or an insurer looks for in a construction-defect expert: not someone who only reads plans and reports, but someone who has framed the roof, run the crew, and pulled the permit.
The engagement itself is technical, not legal. A site walk to inspect the disputed work firsthand; a review of the permit history, inspection record, and any manufacturer or code specification the work was supposed to meet; written and photographic documentation of what was found; and, where the matter calls for it, service as a consulting or testifying expert witness on the construction and code side of the dispute — leak paths, structural framing, roof assemblies, water intrusion, workmanship measured against the Florida Building Code. Randolph is not an attorney and does not give legal advice; this is technical and construction expertise offered in support of a legal or dispute process, brought by the license holder who can speak to how the work was supposed to go and where it didn't.
Because CGC1528750 and CCC1332751 are state certifications rather than county registrations, this work is not limited to Palm Beach County — a state-certified general contractor and roofing contractor is licensed to evaluate and consult on construction anywhere in Florida.
Permit & Code Consulting. Palm Beach County isn't one building department; it's dozens, a patchwork of incorporated cities each running their own submittal process alongside the county's own building division for unincorporated areas. A permit that sails through in one town can stall in the next over a different interpretation of the same Florida Building Code section, a different inspection sequence, or a different set of required attachments. Randolph's crews permit across multiple of these jurisdictions routinely as part of running the rest of the construction business, and that same experience is available as a standalone consulting engagement — for a homeowner trying to make sense of a rejected submittal, a condo or HOA board weighing a capital project against code and permitting reality, or another contractor working a jurisdiction outside their usual territory. The scope covers reading and explaining how the Florida Building Code applies to a specific job, structuring a permit submittal so it clears review the first time, and understanding what an inspector will actually be checking for and when.
Both are engagements, not fixed-price products — call (561) 779-3213 to discuss the specific dispute or permit question and what it would take.
Everything an event planner needs in one place: the five signature talks and who each room is for, running times from a 45-minute keynote to a half-day workshop or a closed board session, the short AV list, how booking works in five steps, what actually moves the fee — plus ten questions worth asking any keynote speaker before you sign. Delivered in English, Danish, or German.
Certified vs. registered, the four-year experience rule and degree substitutions, the FICO 660 financial-responsibility test, the three-part CILB exam, insurance, qualifying your business, and the 14-hour continuing-education renewal cycle — written out in full, free, by a contractor who has filed for six Florida licenses. Read it before you spend a dollar on exam prep.
Six sections of statute, read by an operator who has had to stand on them: the local-ordinance preemption at s. 570.85 and the two exceptions nobody quotes, the definition at s. 570.86 that stops dead at the barn door, what happens to your greenbelt classification and your tax bill under s. 570.87, the liability limit at s. 570.88, the warning sign at s. 570.89 that the limit depends on, and the Right to Farm Act. Plus the four things agritourism status does not license. Written from The Bell Farm.
This website is the working example. It went from a noindex tag and a brand split across three names to a 59-page hub that writes, optimizes and submits itself to Google every day through seven autonomous workflows. The full case study documents the methodology, the bot fleet, the hurdles, and the numbers — written by the AI that did the work.
Every energy claim on this site rests on something like this job: a measurement, not an opinion. This 2017 residential audit paired a blower-door depressurization test with FLIR i7 infrared thermography to answer one question — where is this house losing the air the homeowner already paid to cool?
What the blower door does. A calibrated fan is sealed into an exterior doorway and pulls the house to a known negative pressure. Every gap left in the building envelope then draws outside air inward, hard enough to find. That is the “how much.” What the camera does. The incoming air carries the outdoor temperature with it, so a leak that is invisible to the eye becomes a plume on the thermal image. That is the “where.” Run either one alone and you get half an answer; run them together and the house stops being a guess.
What this house was doing. The scan found the three failures that account for most of a South Florida cooling bill: insulation gaps in the attic around the HVAC ductwork, heat loss at the ridge and along the roofline, and infiltration through wall cavities. The FLIR captures below run from roughly 68°F at the attic ridge to 105°F on the exterior elevation — a spread of nearly forty degrees across one building, on one day, and every degree of it is a load the air conditioner has to carry.
Why this sits on the consulting page. Diagnostic work like this is the floor under both of the energy services offered here. A RESNET® HERS rating is the scored, documented, third-party-registered version of the same investigation — performed by a RESNET® Certified HERS Rater (RTIN 4516301). LEED and green-building consulting starts from the same place: you cannot design or certify performance you have never measured. And because the same person holds a Certified General Contractor licence (CGC1528750), the findings do not stop at a report — the duct sealing, insulation and roof work that the scan calls for can be executed by the firm that found them. If you want the homeowner-facing version of this process, read the home energy audit guide, or see what gets fixed afterwards in energy-efficient home improvement.
CCC1332751 — Certified Roofing Contractor
CAM34850 — Community Association Manager
MFD1654011 — Mobile Food Dispensing
LEED AP — Energy & Environmental Design
Job sites, the farm, the food truck, the wins and the fights — posted straight, unedited, in real time. See how Randolph thinks before you put him in the room.
Keynotes, workshops, one-on-one advisory, or a standing board seat — tell me the audience and the goal, and I'll tell you straight whether I'm the right fit.