Residential, Commercial, Institutional, and Industrial Foundation Damage Assessment and Repair Alternatives
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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 – 4:15 pm
Structure Loads, Soils, Groundwater and Drainage
Structural foundation, slab, basement, retaining wall loading
Extreme weather, man’s activities, geohazard impacts
Soil mechanics and structures
• Soil properties
• Groundwater and site drainage
• Underground utilities and roof drains
• Foundation bearing capacity and settlement
• Soil loads on basement and retaining walls
Foundation Design and Construction
Design-construction of shallow, deep and intermediate foundations
Continuous wall footings, column footings types
Overview of basement wall types, construction, and design
Overview of retaining wall types, construction, and design
Foundation underpinning using micropiles, helical piles
Evaluation of Foundation/Slab Damage and Repair Alternatives
Inspection, monitoring, and damage assessment
• Settlement
• Frost heave
• Expansive soils
• Shrinkage
• Subsurface erosion
• Sinkhole subsidence
• Mine subsidence
• Pumping-dewatering
• Cracking
• Utility failures
Repair methods and example case histories
• Piers, piles
• Soil tiebacks
• Underpinning
• Ground improvement
Evaluation of Wall Damage and Repair Alternatives
Inspection, monitoring, and damage assessment
• Settlement
• Frost loading
• Expansive soils
• Shrinkage
• Poor drainage
• Utility failures
• Failure of connections to supporting diaphragms
Repair methods and example case histories
• Piers, piles
• Soil tiebacks
• Carbon fibers
• Soldier beams
• Crack repair
• Secant-tangent walls
• Underpinning
• Reconstruction
Credits
Architects
6.0 HSW Contact Hours
6.0 AIA HSW Learning Units
Professional Engineers
6.0 PDHs
International Code Council
.60 CEUs – Building
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers up to 6.0 HSW continuing education/contact hours to architects and 6.0 PDHs to professional engineers in all states. Educators and courses are not subject to pre-approval in Pennsylvania.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for6.0 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.
The International Code Council has approved this course for .60 CEUs in the specialty area of Building.
This program offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. It has not been submitted to any state contractor licensing entity for continuing education 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
Michael Perlow Jr., P.E.
Retired Civil & Geotechnical EngineerMichael Perlow Jr., P.E. is a retired civil & geotechnical engineer with more than 45 years of experience in engineering geology, geotechnical engineering and failure investigations. He is a registered professional engineer and a graduate of Lehigh University with BSCE and MSCE degrees. He is also the author of some 35 technical publications and has presented at numerous conferences, seminars, and meetings.
Mr. Perlow retired from full-time consulting in January 2016 and continues to work part-time in retirement. He provides continuing education seminars and webinars on Foundation damage assessment and repair and is completing a three year applied research effort on drilled foundation limit state pile capacity verification along with a book on geo-environmental hazard risk management.
Mr. Perlow has extensive foundation failure assessment-repair experience associated with major sinkhole stabilization projects, utility main breaks and geo-environmental hazard triggered failures. He has directed geologic, geophysical, groundwater quality, and geotechnical investigations for major projects including the $100 million AT&T Solid State Technology Center, Interstate 78 through the Schantz Spring Aquifer in Lehigh County in Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley Regional Postal Facility as well as the Vera Cruz Road and Macungie sinkhole collapses. He also has extensive marine geotechnical experience with coastal, offshore and university research projects.