Wood Frame and Steel Frame Design and Construction 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
Wood Frame Fundamentals for Residential and Small Commercial Buildings
Introduction
Elements in common to wood and light gauge steel design and construction
Forces acting on any structure
Load combination
Load path
Fire resistance considerations
Short history of wood construction and development of conventional wood framing
Governing codes
Sawn lumber, engineered lumber
Basic building elements; floor, wall and roof framing
Pre-manufactured wood trusses and bracing diaphragms
Connections/fastener and adhesives
Connections and fasteners
Steel Frame Fundamentals for Residential and Small Commercial Buildings
Development of cold formed steel framing
Governing codes
Design considerations
Connections and fasteners
MEP accommodation and coordination
Special Topics
Decks and balconies
Special floor system considerations for stone and tile floors
Sustainability and the Forest Stewardship Council
Timber frame mid- to high-rise construction trends
Cross-laminated lumber (CLT)
Credits
Architects
6.5 HSW Continuing Ed. Hours
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Professional Engineers
6.5 CPD Hours/PDHs
International Code Council
.65 CEUs (Building)
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 HSW continuing education hours to architects and 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers in all states, excluding Florida architects. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Ohio.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J8850). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.
HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York architects. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
The International Code Council has approved this event for .65 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
Art Hunkele, P.E.
Millennium Building Engineers LLCMr. Hunkele, principal, of New Millenium Building Engineers, LLC, founded the company with his wife/office manager in 2005. His company serves the light commercial, and residential markets specializing in foundation, and structural failure investigation, repair design and structural detailing design for new construction. Mr. Hunkele serves architects, realtors, building owners, solar panel dealers, contractors and buyers and sellers of residential and light commercial building projects. He is a member of national, state and local organizations of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the National Society of Professional Engineers. Mr. Hunkele is also a National Academy of Building Inspection Engineers board certified inspector. Before New Millennium Building Engineers, LLC, he was with a well-known national/international construction management firm for 28 years.