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
Soil mechanics overview
Site exploration
Subsurface exploration
Laboratory soil testing
Design soil profile
Shallow Foundation Design
Using spread footings
Using mat foundations
Using hybrid foundations
Allowable Settlement and Consolidation
Reviewing theories of bearing capacity
Understanding consolidation and settlement
Effects of load types and soil types
Calculating loads and determining bearing capacity
Shallow Foundation Construction
Grading and soil improvement
Dewatering and drainage
Excavation and underpinning
Complying with building codes
Handling Special Considerations in Foundation Design
Foundations on stratified soils
Foundations on reinforced soils
Foundations on slopes
Basements as foundations
Credits
Architects
6.5 HSW PDHs
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Construction Contractors
Non-Mandatory Cont. Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers up to 6.5 HSW contact hours to architects and 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers in all states. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Idaho.
The American Institute of Architects has approved this event for 6.5 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, New York (NYSED Provider No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
This program also offers a non-mandatory continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. It has not been approved by any contractor board with a 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.
Speakers
Seth Olsen, P.E.
Mr. Olsen has worked on a wide variety of projects performing geotechnical engineering including geologic reconnaissance, pavement design, shallow and deep foundations, slope stability, ground improvement, seismic evaluations, specifications and materials testing. He is a registered professional engineer in the states of Idaho, Montana, and Oregon and earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Utah State University. Mr. Olsen has previously served as an adjunct faculty member at Boise State University. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers Region 8 Board of Governors (2014-present), and he is past president of the ASCE Southern Idaho Section. Mr. Olsen is also a board member of the Idaho Society of Professional Engineers, Southwest Chapter (2013-present).