Residential, Commercial, Institutional, and Industrial Foundation Damage Assessment and Repair Alternatives: Science, Materials and Techniques Seminar
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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, and 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
Professional Engineers
6.0 CPC Credits/PDHs
Architects
6.0 HSW Continuing Ed. Hours
6.0 AIA HSW Learning Units
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers up to 6.0 CPC credits/PDHs to professional engineers and 6.0 HSW continuing education hours to architects in all states, except Florida architects. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education provider for New Jersey engineers (Approval No. 24GP00000700).
This event has been approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.0 Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Courses approved by the AIA qualify for New Jersey architects. Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York architects.
This seminar offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to contractors; it has not been approved in any state that has a contractor continuing education requirement.
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.