Shallow Foundation Design and Construction Seminar
DISCLAIMER
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 am – 12:15 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:15 – 4:30 pm
Evaluating Building Sites
Desk study
Site exploration
Subsurface exploration
Laboratory soil testing
Design soil profile
Shallow Foundation Types and Design Considerations
Spread footings
Mat foundations
Slabs-on-grade
Bearing Capacity and Settlement
Theories of bearing capacity
Consolidation settlement of clay soils
Elastic settlement of granular soils
Calculating loads and determining bearing capacity
Foundations on Difficult Soils
Expansive soils
Subgrade improvement
Dewatering and drainage
Excavation and underpinning
Shallow Foundations for Retaining Walls
Bearing capacities
Lateral soil pressures
Global stability
Foundations on slopes
Basement retaining walls
Credits
Architects
6.5 HSW CEPHs
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 HSW/CEPHs continuing education hours to architects and 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers in all states. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Texas.
The American Institute of Architects has approved this event for 6.5 HSW Learning Units(Sponsor No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA.
HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved architect continuing education sponsorin New York. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsorfor 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 contractors a non-credit continuing education opportunity. 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
E. Dunn
M&S Engineering, L.L.C.Lead Foundation Engineer, M&S Engineering LLC
Mr. Dunn is a licensed professional engineer with over 20 years of civil engineering and related experience specializing in geotechnical engineering, pavement engineering, forensic and structural engineering, construction materials engineering and testing, and electrical transmission engineering. He is licensed in multiple states and his experience includes projects throughout the contiguous United States. Mr. Dunn has worked for commercial, governmental, military, and private clients. He earned a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University, an M.S. degree in Civil Engineering and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Mr. Dunn earned his Ph.D. in Leadership Studies from Our Lady of the Lake University.