Engineered Wood Products Design and Construction Seminar
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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 am – 12:00 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Wood as a Unique Engineering Material
Physical properties
Improved properties of engineered wood products
• Wood panels: plywood, oriented strand board (OSB) and cross-laminated timber
• Structural composite lumber: laminated veneer lumber (LVL); parallel strand lumber (PSL); laminated strand lumber (LSL); and oriented
strand lumber (OSL)
• I joist
• Glue-laminated timber
Reasonable standard of care – labels
Calculating wood’s response to moisture changes
Design Values and Design Equations
Design values
• Traditional
• Machine rated
• Engineered wood products
Adjustment factors
Structural design equations and examples
Floor vibrations and creep
Glue-Laminated Timber
Balanced vs. unbalanced
Recommended vs. poor details
Radial tension
Metal Plate-Connected Trusses
Design responsibility
Truss design drawings
Connections
Lateral
• Lateral failure modes
• Five percent offset value
• Yield limit equations
Withdrawal
Power driven nails
Design examples
Credits
Architects
6.0 HSW Contact Hours
6.0 AIA HSW Learning Units
Professional Engineers
6.0 PDHs
Construction Contractors
Voluntary Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This live lecture presentation is open to the public and offers up to 6.0 HSW continuing education hours to architects and 6.0 PDHs to professional engineers in all states. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Ohio.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.0 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.
This seminar offers a continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. It has not been approved by any state contractor licensing entity for mandatory continuing education credit.
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
Patrick McGuire
Patrick M. McGuire, P.E., S.E., has served the public as a structural engineer since his graduation from the University of Louisville in 1974 with a Master of Civil Engineering degree. He has worked in the wood products and related industries since 1979 and is currently practicing as an independent consultant. He is very lucky to have worked for generous employers who encouraged him to grow his expertise and to share it with others through participation in professional and trade associations such as the Wood Truss Council of America, the Truss Plate Institute, the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the National Frame Builders Association. Mr. McGuire has published several technical articles on wood-related design.