Practical Site Engineering: Science and Techniques
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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
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 Grading
Grading for roads, sidewalks and paths
Grading for stairs and ramps
Grading for retaining walls
Grading slopes
Digital Site Engineering and Modeling
Site engineering software
Site modeling
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
Site Engineering Construction Management
Initiation, planning, execution and closure
Managing the contractor
Quality control
Case Studies
Credits
Architects
6.5 HSW CE Hours
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Landscape Architects
6.5 HSW CE Hours
6.5 LA CES HSW PDHs
Professional Engineers &
Land Surveyors
6.5 PDHs
Floodplain Managers
6.5 CECs
Contractors
Non-Credit CE Activity
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers up to 6.5 HSW continuing education hours to architects and landscape architects and 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers and land surveyors in most states, including Utah. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Utah.
This seminar is registered with the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885) and the Landscape Architects Continuing Education System for 6.5 HSW PDHs.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for architects in Florida and is deemed an approved sponsor in New York. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York (NYSED Provider No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
The Association of State Floodplain Managers has approved this course for 6.5 CECs.
This course offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to Utah contractors.
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
Ted Didas, P.E.
President/CEO of McNeil Engineering in Sandy, UTMr. Didas has over 27 years of experience with site plan design for commercial, residential, industrial, institutional and mixed-use projects. He has been involved with projects from initial planning and concept plans through the approval process and construction of the project. His duties have included site layout, grading, drainage and utility design; hydrologic analysis and storm water detention design; the preparation of construction documents including plans, specifications and cost options; and field observation of project construction. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, and he is a licensed civil engineer in Utah, Colorado and Idaho.