Practical Site Engineering: Science and Techniques
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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 – 11:45 am
Lunch (On your own): 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 5:00 pm
Accommodating Multiple Purposes of Site Engineering
Slope stabilization
Stormwater management
Landscape aesthetics
Engineering for built elements
Sustainability goals: minimizing disturbance and preserving
natural features
Considering the Impact of Soils and Landforms
Understanding the role of soils
Soil characteristics, classification and engineering properties
Understanding the watershed
Considering high points, low points and plane surfaces
Site Engineering for Stormwater Management and Erosion Control
Determining volume and rate of stormwater runoff
Stormwater modeling
Evaluating stormwater management techniques
Reviewing erosion and sediment control principles and processes
Digital Site Engineering and Modeling
Site engineering software
Site modeling
Site Grading
Grading for roads, sidewalks and paths
Grading for stairs and ramps
Grading for retaining walls
Grading slopes
Site Engineering Construction Management
Initiation, planning, execution and closure
Managing the contractor
Quality control
Case Study: Applying Science and Technology
to a Site Engineering Problem
Credits
Architects
7.0 PDHs/Contact Hours
7.0 AIA HSW Learning Units
Professional Engineers
7.0 PDHs
Landscape Architects
7.0 HSW PDHs
7.0 LA CES HSW PDHs
Contractors
Non-Credit Cont. Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 7.0 PDHs/contact hours (HSW) to architects, landscape architects, and engineers in all states. Educators and courses are not subject to pre-approval in Tennessee.
This event has been approved by the American Institute of Architects for 7.0 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885) and the Landscape Architect Continuing Education System for 7.0 HSW PDHs. The AIA approval qualifies this program for North Carolina architects
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for architects in Florida and is deemed an approved sponsor for architects and landscape architects in New York. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
This seminar offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to contractors; it has not been submitted to any state contractor licensing board for course approval.
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
Mark Graham, P.E.
Mark V. Graham Engineering Consultants, PLLCMark V Graham Engineering Consultants, PLLCMr. Graham is the founder of Mark V. Graham Engineering Consultants, PLLC. His company focuses on site development, layout, grading, stormwater management, utilities, permit application (SWPPP, ARAP, SPAP) and stake holder coordination. He has extensive experience with paving, asphalt, concrete, and quarry operations. Additionally, Mr. Graham works on green site development applications, sustainability design, and tiny house projects. He has previously worked as the vice principal of an architectural engineering firm, managing national civil engineering land development projects. Mr. Graham received his BS degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 1987. He was commissioned in the US Army corps of Engineers, and served with the 844th Engr Bn (Combat) (Heavy). He is a registered professional engineer and is licensed in Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, and North Carolina.