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 Continuing Ed. Hours
Architects
6.5 Continuing Ed. 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 continuing education hours to engineers and 6.5 continuing education hours (HSW) to architects in all states, excluding Florida architects. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Virginia.
This event has been approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). 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. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
This event offers Virginia geologists a non-credit continuing education opportunity.
This seminar offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors; it has not been approved by any state contractor licensing entity for continuing education purposes.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire program. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Dimitrios Konstantakos
Deep Excavation LLCDimitrios 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.