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 – 4:30 pm

Deep Excavations: Introduction

Defining deep excavations
Types of deep excavations
Methods of stabilization
Common problems and challenges

Soil Mechanics and Sheet Pile Walls

Understanding soil response
Basic earth pressure theory
Cantilever wall analysis
Anchored sheet pile walls

Braced Excavation Design

Braced walls
Apparent earth pressures
Analysis methods

Cofferdams

Applications for cofferdams
Methods of constructing
Design details and methods

ASD and LRFD Design

ASD vs LRFD design framework
LRFD limitations
Design examples

Deep Excavation Case Studies

Solving braced excavations
Case history

Credits

Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs

Architects
6.5 Public Protection/HSW CE Hours
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units

Geologists
Non-credit Continuing Ed.

Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.

Continuing Education Credit Information

This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers and 6.5 HSW (Public Protection) continuing education hours to architects in all states, except for Florida architects. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Georgia.

This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Provider No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.

HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved architect continuing education sponsor in New York. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida (Area of Practice; Provider No. 0004647), Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York (NYSED Provider No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.

This event offers Georgia geologists a non-credit continuing education opportunity.

This seminar also offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to contractors. It has not been reviewed by any state contractor licensing entity.

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

Dimitrios Konstantakos

Deep Excavation LLC

Dimitrios C. Konstantakos, P.E., is the founder and CEO of Deep Excavation LLC, a developer of user-friendly, robust, high-quality, integrated deep excavation calculation and design software. He is also the current chair of the ASCE’s Earth Retaining Structures Committee. Mr. Konstantakos holds a master of science degree in Civil/Geotechnical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BS degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has been involved in the design of bridge foundations, tunnels, deep excavations, finite element simulations, piers and bulkheads, and pile foundations, and he has been involved in field inspections. His experience includes structural engineering with a leading geotechnical firm in New York, New York. He is a professional engineer in the states of New York and West Virginia, and he is an EU P.E. in Geotechnical Engineering. Mr. Konstantakos has also taught Support of Excavation Systems as an adjunct professor at New York University.