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
Functional Design of Parking Garages
Parking structure classification
Determining parking occupancy type
Site design
Parking structure planning
Layout
Circulation
Vertical communication
Drainage
Fire prevention and protection
Vehicle and pedestrian egress
Parking Structure System Design
Structural requirements for parking garages
Seismic design
Wind load resistance
Use of shear walls
Horizontal vs. vertical walls
Simplified stiffness analysis
Resistance to overturning
Moment-resisting frames
Diaphragm design
Parking Structure Design Continued
Connection Design Considerations
Parking Structure Maintenance, Restoration, and Repair
Benefits and challenges for various types of parking structures
Service life expectations
Condition assessment
Optimum timing for repairs
Routine repair and maintenance
Proactive repair and maintenance
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Architects
6.5 HSW Contact Hours
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Certified Planners
6.5 CM Credits
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers in all states. HalfMoon Education is an approved engineer continuing education provider in North Carolina (S-0130). It offers 6.5 HSW contact hours/CE hours to architects in all states, except Florida.
This event is approved by the American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Courses approved by the AIA qualify for North Carolina architects. Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA.
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 York, and North Dakota.
The American Planning Association has approved this course for 6.5 CM credits, which includes no ethics and professionalism credits or law credits.
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
Rob McConnell, PE, SE, LEED Green Associate
Vice President at WGI Parking Solutions, Charlotte, NCMr. McConnell’s parking design and consulting experience encompasses nearly 30 years of work with airports, government, military, transit, higher education, resort, healthcare, and corporate clients. He is a member of the National Parking Association’s Parking Consultants Council and a founding member of ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute. He is well-versed in precast concrete, cast-in-place concrete, and steel construction. Mr. McConnell’s experience includes numerous restorations, parking study, and programming projects. Several of his projects have received LEED certification, and he is an accredited GBCI Parksmart Advisor.
