Precast Concrete Parking Structure Design and Maintenance
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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 – 12:00 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 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
Precast 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
Connection Design Considerations
Horizontal components:
• Double tees, inverted tee beams, spandrel beams, slabs and stairs
Vertical components:
• Columns, ramp walls, shear walls, stair walls
Lessons from design experience
Precast Garage Maintenance
Why does a precast garage need maintenance?
Maintenance manual and schedule
Sealant maintenance and repair
Common maintenance repairs
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Architects
6.5 HSW Contact Hours
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Construction Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This live lecture presentation 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. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Ohio.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885).
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, Indiana, 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 approved by any state contractor licensing entity for mandatory 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
Ned Cleland
Blue Ridge Design, Inc.Blue Ridge Design, Inc., in Winchester, VADr. Cleland has 40 years of experience in structural analysis, design, research, and engineering management. Dr. Cleland has designed or directed the design of nearly 300 parking garages either as specialty structural engineer or as structural engineer of record, and he has extensive experience in precast/prestressed design, detailing and construction. He is the immediate past chairman of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Technical Committee on Parking Garages when the PCI Recommended Practice was updated to the 3rd Edition. He co-authored the PCI Seismic Design Manual with Dr. S.K. Ghosh for the 1st and 2nd Editions. Dr. Cleland is currently a member the American Concrete Institute Committee 318, and he serves on 318-G, the prestressed concrete subcommittee, and on 318-H, the seismic design subcommittee. He is a member of ACI 362 on parking garages. Dr. Cleland is also chairman of the Technical Activities Council of PCI and has served on this committee for 18 years.