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 am – 12:00 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 4:30 pm
Slope Mechanics and Movement
E. Hanna
Types of slope movement and instability
Rock fall and rockslides
• Translational and rotational failures
• Debris flows and rapidly-moving landslides
Analyzing the stability of slopes
Slope stability concepts
• Reviewing geologic conditions
• Examining soils and topography
• Evaluating surface and groundwater conditions
Soil and rock mechanics overview
• The influence of water
Evaluating types of slopes
• Natural slopes
• Engineered slopes
Methods of slope stability analysis
Slope Stabilization Methods
E. Hanna
Use of vegetation
Surface protection
Unloading
Buttressing
Draining
Reinforcing
Installing earth retention structures
Rock slope stabilization
Preserving Streambeds, Shorelines and Drainage Channels
G. Brown
Preserving streambeds
Maintaining shoreline
Stormwater management and drainage
Reviewing Slope Stabilization Case Studies
G. Brown
Slope stabilization using retaining walls
Slope stabilization using geosynthetics
Rock fall mitigation
Brownfield sites
Riverfront sites
Credits
Architects
6.5 HSW Contact Hours
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Landscape Architects
6.5 HSW Contact Hours
6.5 LA CES HSW PDHs
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Floodplain Managers
6.5 ASFPM CECs
Contractors
Non-Credit Cont. Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers up to 6.5 HSW continuing education/contact hours to architects and landscape architects and 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers in most states, including Pennsylvania. Courses and course providers are not subject to pre-approval in Pennsylvania.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885) and the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System for 6.5 HSW PDHs.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for architects in Florida and is deemed an approved sponsor for architects and landscape architects in New York. 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.
The Association of State Floodplain Managers has approved this seminar for 6.5 CECs.
This seminar offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to contractors. It has not been approved by any state with 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.
Speakers
Gary R. Brown
President of RT Environmental Services, Inc.
Mr. Brown is president of RT Environmental Services, Inc., an environmental services firm located in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. He is a professional engineer (P.E.) in 20 states, and he has been practicing environmental engineering in Pennsylvania and New Jersey since 1973. He is also a qualified environmental professional (Q.E.P) with over 30 years of diversified engineering experience, including 22 years of engineering management experience. Mr. Brown has worked in the waste management industry and designed stormwater facilities since 1978. He has completed expert work on state and federal court cases as well.
Ernest Hanna
GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.Principal with GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.Mr. Hanna is a licensed engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as well as the States of New Jersey and New York. He has been practicing geotechnical engineering for over 25 years with GZA GeoEnvironmental. Mr. Hanna graduated in 1979 from the University of Rochester with a B.S. degree in Biology/Geology. Following five years of consulting work as a geologist, he received an M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986. Since that time, Mr. Hanna has been responsible for data review, site investigation, engineering design, report preparation and construction monitoring for numerous geotechnical projects that include building foundations, bridge abutments and piers, dams, slopes and tunnels.