Designing to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change
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.
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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 – 5:00 pm
Reviewing the Science of Climate Change:
Current and Anticipated Effects on Structures and Communities
Scientific consensus on current climate change effects
• Intergovernmental panel on climate change
• Current climate change effects in the Mid-Atlantic
Forecasting future climate change effects
• Effects on sea level, weather patterns, extreme weather events
Effect of actions to slow or reverse climate change
Assessing the Impact of Sea Level Rise on the Built Environment
Which potential reality do you plan for?
Revising flood plain maps
Assessing 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 structures
• Impact on landscape, heat island effect
• Impact on transportation systems and infrastructure
Adapting future building plans to a changed climate
Studying the Impact of Extreme Weather Events
on Structures and Communities
Study of Superstorm Sandy and other 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 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
Architects &
Landscape Architects
7.0 HSW Contact Hours
7.0 AIA HSW Learning Units
7.0 LA CES HSW PDHs
Professional Engineers
7.0 PDHs
Floodplain Managers
7.0 ASFPM CECs
Contractors
Non-Credit Cont. Ed
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public. It offers up to 7.0 HSW continuing education hours to architects and 7.0 PDHs to professional engineers in all states. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval for architect and engineer continuing education credit in Pennsylvania.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 7.0 HSW Learning Units (Provider No. J885) and the Landscape Architect Continuing Education System for 7.0 HSW PDHs. These approvals qualify the program for Pennsylvania landscape architect continuing education credit.
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 activity for 7.0 CECs.
This seminar offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity for construction contractors. It has not been reviewed by any state contractor licensing entity with a continuing education requirement.
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 within15 business days.
Speakers
Michael Schwebel, Ph.D., RLA
Monmouth UniversityCommunity Resilience and Climate Adaptation SpecialistDr. Schwebel is the community resilience and climate adaptation specialist at the Urban Coast Institute at Monmouth University (MU), and the climate extension agent for the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC), as a joint endeavor between the two institutes. Dr. Schwebel’s research and practice areas focus on climate change policy, community outreach and adaptation, and resilience at the local, regional, and state levels. He also teaches classes at Monmouth University in geography, climate change, and policy in addition to his extension roles. Prior to joining UCI, Dr. Schwebel developed and instructed several environmentally-based courses at Temple University and Rutgers University. He is a registered landscape architect (RLA) and LEED-accredited professional (LEED AP), specializing in green buildings. Dr. Schwebel earned a Ph.D. degree in Geography and Urban Studies from Temple University, an M.S. degree in Environmental Sciences and Policy from The John Hopkins University and a bachelors degree in Landscape Architecture from The Pennsylvania State University.