Designing and Constructing Flood-Resistant Buildings
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Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 – 11:45 am
Lunch (On your own): 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 4:30 pm
Reviewing National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
Standards for Floodplain Development
Reviewing the NFIP
• Using the right maps and flood data
• Classifying structures
• Regulations
Risk and insurance
Designing and Constructing Flood-Resistant Buildings in
Compliance with Codes and American Society of
Civil Engineers (ASCE) 24-14
Building codes
Engineering standards
Siting requirements
Using flood-damage resistant materials
Installing utilities and service equipment
Designing and Constructing Buildings for Flood-Resistant
Performance
Complying with requirements to use freeboard
Flood design elevation considerations
Selecting a flood mitigation option
Addressing all applicable flood loads
Designing flood openings in foundation walls
Complying with Flood-Resistant Requirements for Structures
Foundation design
Foundation alternatives
Limitations on dry floodproofing nonresidential buildings
Proper electrical, mechanical, and plumbing system mitigation
Credits
Architects
6.5 Contact Hours/CEUs
(HSW)
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Floodplain Managers
6.5 ASFPM CECs
Contractors
Non-Credit Cont. Ed
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers up to 6.5 contact hours/CEUs (HSW) to architects and 6.5 PDHs to engineers in all states. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Missouri and Illinois.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885).
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for architects in Florida and is deemed an approved sponsor in New York. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
The Association of State Floodplain Managers has approved this event for 6.5 CECs.
This seminar is designed to provide a non-credit continuing education opportunity for contractors. It has not been submitted to any state contractor licensing entity for continuing education approval.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Adam Reeder, PE, CFM
Project Manager at CDM Smith in Raleigh, NCMr. Reeder is a nationally-recognized subject matter expert in flood and wind mitigation. He has been an author on approximately 12 publications for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). For the past six years he has been the instructor for FEMA’s Coastal Construction and the Fundamentals of Building Science Classes at the Emergency Management Institute. He was an instructor and developed the course materials for FEMA’s Nonresidential Floodproofing Course and a course utilizing ASCE 24 for flood mitigation projects. Currently he is the technical lead for a FEMA study to evaluate flood mitigation options for multifamily buildings. Mr. Reeder is a primary author on the update to FEMA P-348 Protecting Building Utilities from Flood Damage. In August 2016 Mr. Reeder completed a study for FEMA on the economic benefits of nonresidential flood mitigation in coastal areas. He provided FEMA and the State of Louisiana assistance with the development of grant applications related to hurricane mitigation. In August of 2015 he was requested by the Georgetown University Climate Center to provide a technical review of a paper discussing mitigation efforts after Hurricane Katrina. He was also an advisor to the New York City Planning Department’s Guide to Retrofitting Buildings for Flood Risk and other Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts. Mr. Reeder received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from The Citadel. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in North Carolina and South Carolina and is a certified floodplain manager.