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 Public Protection PDUs
6.5 AIA Learning Units
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 PDHs to Georgia professional engineers and 6.5 Public Protection PDUs to Georgia architects. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Georgia.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 Learning Units (Provider No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.
Architects and engineers seeking continuing education credit in other states will be able to apply the hours earned at this seminar. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved architect continuing education sponsor in New York.
This course offers contractors a non-credit continuing education opportunity.
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
Harry Gleich
Metromont CorporationMr. Gleich is vice president of engineering for Metromont Corporation. He is responsible for all engineering designs for the company, including: developing new design techniques and improving quality and efficiency in manufacturing or erection through design, supervising areas of drafting and project engineering, and providing technical support to quality control and sales. Metromont has built more than 750 parking structures across the Southeast under Mr. Gleich’s supervision. Previously he worked for two precast/prestress manufacturers, advancing from design engineer to chief engineer. Professional awards include The Norman L. Scott Professional Engineer Award (2018), Titan of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Industry (2014), Life Member of PCI (2013), ACI Fellow (2005), PCI Fellow (1999), and Piedmont Chapter NSPE Engineer of the Year (1997).
Forrest Hibbard
Mr. Hibbard is a parking planning and design specialist with expertise in functionality and operational flexibility. Mr. Hibbard is skilled in parking programming for phased mixed-use projects and master planning for municipal, university, healthcare, hospitality, corporate campus and airport clients. He is experienced in coordinating parking requirements with developers; owners; design consultants; and planning, zoning, and building departments. His technical strengths include sustainable parking design strategies, barrier-free design, parking geometrics, pedestrian and vehicular traffic flows, signage and graphics, parking access and revenue control equipment, and “smart parking” technology design integration. Mr. Hibbard is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and is a registered professional engineer in Georgia (License No. 15029). He is a contributing author of The Dimensions of Parking, 5th Edition, 2010, a collaborative effort of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the National Parking Association (NPA). As a past-member of NPA’s Parking Consultants Council, Mr. Hibbard has been a committee member contributor to several publications, including Parking Studies, 2006; Parking Garage Maintenance Manual, 2004; and Guidelines for Parking Geometrics, 2002. Mr. Hibbard is a member of the International Parking Institute (IPI) and has been an active member of the Parking Association of Georgia (PAG) for 30 years.