Designing for Climate Resiliency Seminar
DISCLAIMER
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.
Learn more about the on-demand format in our FAQ or contact us at (715) 835-5900 or customerservice@halfmoonseminars.org
Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 4:30 pm
Current and Anticipated Climate Effects on Structures
and Communities
Changing climate zones
Changing weather patterns
Forecasting future climate change effects
Effect of actions to slow or reverse climate change
Assessing the Impact of Sea Level Rise on Georgia’s Built Environment
Reviewing scientific projections
Revising flood plain maps
Assessing insurance risks
Adapting future building plans to sea level changes
Assessing the Impact of Changing Temperature and
Weather Patterns
Understanding the practical impact of annual average
temperature changes
Impact on heating, ventilation and air conditioning
Impact on landscape, heat island effect
Impact on transportation systems and infrastructure
Public health impacts
Studying the Impact of Extreme Weather Events
on Structures and Communities
Study of hurricanes and recent weather events
Forecasting the types and intensities of future weather events
Current actions to mitigate impacts, preserve structures and
protect infrastructure
Insurance and regulatory impacts
Adapting Sites and Outdoor Spaces to Withstand
Extreme Temperature and Weather Events
Existing initiatives toward sustainable sites
Specific strategies for individual sites
Strategies for communities and municipalities
Adapting New Construction and Retrofitting Existing
Buildings to Withstand Extreme Weather Events
Adapting/revising coastal construction guidelines
Adapting/revising building codes
Implementing design strategies to protect new and existing structures
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Architects
6.5 PDUs (Public Protection)
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Floodplain Managers
6.5 ASFPM CECs
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers, 6.5 Public Protection PDUs to architects in Georgia. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Georgia.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Provider No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.
Engineers and architects seeking continuing education credit in other states will be able to apply the hours earned at this seminar, in most cases. Refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York architects.
The Association of State Floodplain Managers has approved this course for 6.5 CECs.
This seminar also offers a non-mandatory continuing education opportunity for contractors. It has not been reviewed by any state contractor licensing entity.
Speakers
Dr. Jairo Garcia
Executive Director with Urban Climate NexusDr. Jairo Garcia develops innovative policies and educational programs to make communities and cities cleaner, sustainable, resilient, and equitable. He is the lead author of Atlanta’s Climate Action Plan, and he led a collaborative effort with more than 40 stakeholders to the 100 Resilient Cities application, awarded to the City of Atlanta in 2016. Dr. Garcia is a member of the Georgia Research Roadmap steering committee, an initiative of the Georgia Climate Project lead by University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Emory University, which has a goal of improving understanding of climate impacts and solutions in Georgia. He received the Individual Climate Leadership Award by the EPA in 2017 and the Green Ring Award by the Climate Reality Project. These awards recognized Dr. Garcia’s leadership in addressing climate change and engaging organizations, peers, and partners. He represented the Mayor of Atlanta at COP23 in Bonn, Germany, and he presented at an event organized by the International Urban Cooperation Programme related to global cooperation to address climate change. Dr. Garcia’s publications on urban sustainability, climate change and sustainability education are numerous. His academic experiences include a position as a research assistant and two teaching assistant positions at Columbia University, a faculty adjunct and thesis advisor position at Concordia University, and faculty adjunct positions for the UCLA-Extension Program, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Garcia holds an engineering degree, an MSc degree in Management of Information Technologies, an MSc degree in Sustainability Management, and a doctoral degree in Educational Technology and Sustainability.