Seismic Design of Buildings: Importance of Seismic Ground Motions Seminar
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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 – 11:45 am
Lunch (On your own): 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 5:00 pm
Understanding the Effect of Seismic Loads on Buildings
Measuring seismic activity
Quantifying the forces on soils, foundations and buildings
Strength and stiffness
Strength procedures, allowable stress procedures,
performance-based procedures
Serviceability and functionality
Seismic force distribution (load path)
Reviewing Applicable Building Codes and Design Guidelines
Seismic design criteria
ASCE 7 seismic provisions
International Building Code
Site-specific Ground Motion Procedures for Seismic Design
Site response
Risk-targeted maximum considered earthquake
Probabilistic, deterministic, site-specific
Selection and Modification of Time Histories for Seismic Design
Ground motion databases
Selection criteria
Modification procedures
Soil Structure Interaction for Seismic Design
Foundation damping effects
Kinematic interaction effects
Credits
Professional Engineers
7.0 Continuing Ed. Hours
Architects
7.0 AIA HSW Learning Units
(Non-qualifying for CA architects)
International Code Council
.7 CEUs (Building)
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers a 7.0 hour continuing education opportunity to professional engineers and 7.0 HSW continuing education hours to architects (non-credit in California) in all states with continuing education requirements. Continuing education is not required for engineer license maintenance or renewal in California. The subject matter of this seminar does not contain accessibility content for California architects.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 7.0 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885. 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.
The International Code Council has approved this event for .7 CEUs in the specialty area of Building.
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
Jorge F. Meneses, PhD, PE, GE, BC.GE, F.ASCE
Senior Principal Geotechnical Engineer with Worley ConsultingDr. Meneses was a member of the California Seismic Safety Commission appointed by Governor Brown and confirmed by State Senate (2017-2021). He is a reviewer of seismic ground motions for the seismic design of high rise buildings for the City of San Diego, part-time faculty in the Graduate School of Civil Engineering at San Diego State University, Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), member of the Industry Advisory Board of the Department of Structural Engineering at University of California San Diego, past member of the Board of Directors of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), and past president of the EERI San Diego Chapter. Dr. Meneses is also a past member of the ASCE 7-16 Committee (Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures) and current member of the ASCE 7-28 Committee, member of the ASCE 1 Committee (Geotechnical Analysis, Design, Construction, Inspection and Monitoring of Nuclear Safety-Related Structures), Honorary chair of the ASCE Geo-Institute San Diego Chapter, and member of the Academy of Geo-Professionals.