Slope Stabilization and Landslide Prevention 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 – 4:00 pm
Analyzing the Stability of Slopes
Evaluating types of slopes
• Natural slopes
• Engineered slopes
Reviewing geologic conditions
Examining soils and topography
Evaluating surface and groundwater conditions
Methods of slope failure
• Rock fall and rockslides
• Slump
• Mudslides
Methods of slope analysis
Case Studies
Question and answer
Slope Stabilization Methods
Unloading
Buttressing
Draining
Reinforcing
Installing retaining walls
Use of vegetation
Surface protection
Soil engineering
Rock slope stabilization
Reviewing Slope Stabilization Case Studies
Credits
California Engineers &Geologists
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Architects & Landscape Architects
6.0 AIA HSW Learning Units
6.0 LACES HSW PDHs
Floodplain Managers
6.0 ASFPM CECs
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.0 non-credit continuing education hours to California professional engineers, geologists, and architects. It will qualify for required continuing education credit in all other states, except Florida architects. This course also offers a 6.0 hour non-credit continuing education opportunity to California landscape architects.
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. Other states do not preapprove educators or courses.
This seminar is approved by The American Institute of Architects for 6.0 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885) and the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System for 6.0 HSW PDHs. The subject matter of this seminar does not qualify for California architect continuing education credit.
The Association of State Floodplain Managers has approved this event for 6.0 CECs.
This course offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. It has not been approved in any state with a mandatory continuing education.
Attendance will be monitored and reported, as required. 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
Binod Tiwari
California State University, FullertonCalifornia State University, Fullerton
Dr. Tiwari is a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of California State University, Fullerton. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Geotechnical Engineering in 2003 and is expert in the fields of slope stability and stabilization, landslide mitigation, applied GIS, soil behavior and characterization, and geotechnical earthquake engineering. Dr. Tiwari is a member of various technical committees for ASCE and the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, and he is editor as well as reviewer for various international journals. He was post-doc at Niigata University, Japan, and at Virginia Tech for more than three years prior to joining CSUF in the fall of 2006. Dr. Tiwari is a licensed professional engineer in the state of California and has more than 20 years experience in design and implementation of projects pertinent to slope stability and stabilization.