Pavement Design
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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 am – 12:15 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:15 – 4:30 pm
Principles of Pavement Design
C. Decker, K. Justice
Goals of pavement design
Consulting guidelines and standards
Obtaining information on site
Analyzing anticipated use
Pavement selection process and criteria
Economics and lifecycle analysis
Design of Flexible Pavements
C. Decker
Soil support and subsurface preparation
Reclamation and recycling
Preparing existing pavement
Flexible pavement design
Overlay of existing pavement
Design of Rigid Pavements
K. Justice
Soil support and subsurface preparation
Pavement thickness
Overlay of existing flexible pavement
Overlay of existing rigid pavement
Joint design
Design of Specific Elements
C. Decker, K. Justice
Design of shoulders
Design of shared-use pavements
Design of parking lots and driveways
Design of paths and walkways
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs (MD Category A)
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers up to 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers in all states. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Maryland. This is a Category A event for Maryland engineers.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Provider No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
This course offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. It has not been approved by any state contractor licensing entity for 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
Christopher Decker
RDM International, Inc.Vice President/Project Manager at RDM International, Inc.Mr. Decker has more than two decades of experience in pavement design, materials testing, quality control/quality assurance, and construction management. He is currently licensed in 22 states. Mr. Decker serves as RDM’s vice president and as a project manager for various airport, roadway and forensic investigation projects. Over the past five years he has successfully completed over 70 projects across the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Decker has provided numerous training courses, project presentations and paper presentations for clients, professional society conferences and state, federal and international government organizations. He has presented on topics including Proper Paving Techniques, P-401 Mix Design Requirements, P-401 Placement Requirements, P-501 Mix Design Requirements, P-501 Placement Requirements, Current Airfield Pavement Initiatives, FAA Update to P-401 (Superpave), From Pavement Design to Durability and Performance, Smoothness and Drainage, GMIA Paving in the Bullseye, Runway 10R/28L Replacement: A Case Study of a Large Airfield Project at CMH, ACC Construction Session on Quality Acceptance and Testing, Resurfacing the Runway to the Nation’s Capitol, P-501 Placement using Slipform Pavers, Soil Cement Stabilization, Sustainable Design and Construction of Airfield Pavements, and Compaction of HMA Pavements.
Kenneth M. Justice P.E. LEED AP
Senior Director, Local Paving, Pave Ahead
Mr. Justice is based in the Philadelphia area, and works with local, regional and state technical and promotion partners to help deliver concrete parking and street paving projects by supporting promotion, design and construction activities as well as provide training and presentations on concrete applications and promotion. Mr. Justice is also a pervious concrete and pervious pavements specialist, having been involved in over 300 pervious pavement projects and has spoken at hundreds of industry events, workshops and webinars. Prior to joining the NRMCA, Mr. Justice was the promotion director for the Portland Cement Association Northeast for over 10 years. Prior to that, Mr. Justice worked as a civil engineer with over 25 years of experience as an engineering project manager, concentrating on pavement projects for airports, parking lots and roads.