Geo-Environmental Hazard Risk Management
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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
Geo-Environmental Hazard Overview
Overview of extreme weather, geologic hazards, and hazards resulting from man’s activity
Review of the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather in the US and world
Geologic hazard overview (sinkholes, subsidence, landslides, earthquakes, problem soils, etc.)
NATECH hazard assessment (natural hazards triggering technological man-made disasters)
Impact of man’s activity (land development, stormwater, water resources, mining, logging)
Impacts on critical municipal, transportation, energy, and telecommunications infrastructure
Impacts of geo-environmental hazards on design of buildings, other structures, and utilities
New ASCE 7-16 Design Loads for Buildings and web-based hazard tool overview
Geo-Environmental Hazard Assessment
Limit state hazard assessment considering geohazards, extreme weather and man’s impacts
Extreme weather hazard assessment to identify changes in loading and resistance to loading
Geologic hazard assessment using limit state methods to identify critical failure conditions
NATECH hazard assessment (natural hazards triggering technological man-made disasters)
Hazard assessment of man’s activity including building, structure, and infrastructure failures
Integrated limit state hazard assessment of geohazards, extreme weather, and man’s activity
Review of example geo-environmental hazard assessment case studies
Geo-Environmental Risk Management
Emergency response, mitigation, monitoring, and loss prevention risk management tools
Conventional geo-environmental hazard risk management state of practice
Review of limit state hazard assessment and geotechnical limit state design practices
Use of aerial mapping, lidar, remote sensing with limit state spreadsheet graphs, plots
Development of building, infrastructure, and natural environment deterioration models
Limit state risk assessment, failure analysis, mitigation, monitoring and mitigation examples
GEHARM Case Studies
Illustrative case studies using limit state hazard assessment and risk management tools
Flash flooding in prolonged drought, desert, and forest fire areas
Extreme rain, wind, lightning, hail, tornados, river-stream flooding
Tropical storms, hurricanes, typhoons, storm surge, coastal erosion, and flooding
Sinkhole collapse, land subsidence, swelling soils, fault movement, ground cracking
Landslides, mudslides, rockslides, avalanches, slope, and retaining wall failures
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, lahars, tsunamis, and landslide flooding
Infrastructure, building and structure failures, man-made disasters
Planetary hazard case studies and risk management approach
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Architects
6.5 HSW Contact Hours
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Floodplain Managers
6.5 ASFPM CECs
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers and 6.5 HSW continuing education hours to architects in most states, including Pennsylvania. Courses and course providers are not subject to pre-approval in Pennsylvania.
HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved architect continuing education sponsor for architects 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 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.
The Association of State Floodplain Managers has approved this seminar for 6.5 CECs for certified floodplain managers.
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
Michael Perlow Jr., P.E.
Retired Civil & Geotechnical EngineerMichael Perlow Jr., P.E. is a retired civil & geotechnical engineer with more than 45 years of experience in engineering geology, geotechnical engineering and failure investigations. He is a registered professional engineer and a graduate of Lehigh University with BSCE and MSCE degrees. He is also the author of some 35 technical publications and has presented at numerous conferences, seminars, and meetings.
Mr. Perlow retired from full-time consulting in January 2016 and continues to work part-time in retirement. He provides continuing education seminars and webinars on Foundation damage assessment and repair and is completing a three year applied research effort on drilled foundation limit state pile capacity verification along with a book on geo-environmental hazard risk management.
Mr. Perlow has extensive foundation failure assessment-repair experience associated with major sinkhole stabilization projects, utility main breaks and geo-environmental hazard triggered failures. He has directed geologic, geophysical, groundwater quality, and geotechnical investigations for major projects including the $100 million AT&T Solid State Technology Center, Interstate 78 through the Schantz Spring Aquifer in Lehigh County in Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley Regional Postal Facility as well as the Vera Cruz Road and Macungie sinkhole collapses. He also has extensive marine geotechnical experience with coastal, offshore and university research projects.