Parking Structure Design, Construction and Maintenance 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 – 12:15 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:15 – 4:30 pm
Parking Geometrics and Layout
Typical parking layout
• One-way vs two-way traffic
• Turning bay requirements
• End bay parking
• Square footage per space
Vertical circulation
• Parking ramp requirements
• Express ramp requirements and transitions
• Helical ramp requirements
ADA requirements
• Required amount of ADA accessible spaces
• Required amount of van accessible spaces
• Vertical clearance requirements
• Floor slope requirements
Egress requirements
Open vs enclosed classification
Expansion joint locations
Structural Systems for Parking Structures
Typical construction types
• Cast-in-place, post-tensioned concrete
One-way beam/slab
Two-way flat plate
• Prestressed, precast concrete
• Steel construction
Comparisons of the systems
• Durability of the systems
• Restraint considerations
• Confined site issues
• Lighting
• Construction issues
Parking Structure Design
Loading requirements
• Live load
• Snow load
• Wind load
• Seismic load
• Thermal, creep, shrinkage, shortening
Design criteria
• Tensile stresses and classification
• Minimum P/A stress
• Balanced dead load
• Minimum bonded reinforcement
• Loss of tendons during construction
Lateral Force Resisting Systems
Types of lateral force resisting systems
• Moment frames
• Shear walls and lightwalls
• Cantilevered columns
Ideal locations for shear walls
• Visibility and safety
• Effects on volume change
Durability and Maintenance
Mix design and classification
Add mixture options
Life cycle cost analysis
Finishing and curing
Routine maintenance guidelines
Construction Issues
Sleeves and conduits
Tendon profile issues
Tendon blowouts
Post installed anchors
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Architects
6.5 HSW Continuing Ed. Hours
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
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 all states, excluding Florida architects. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Ohio.
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.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.
This course offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to contractors. It has not been approved by any state contractor licensing entity for licensing maintenance.
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
Nathan Walsman
SchaeferPrincipal at Schaefer in Cincinnati, OH
Mr. Walsman graduated from Purdue University with BS and MS degrees. He has been a principal engineer at Schaefer in Cincinnati since 2005. Mr. Walsman has a proven resume of work experience in the area of structural engineering and in parking structures in particular. He has been working in structural engineering since 1999, and he has since designed over 40 parking structures.