Foundations on Expansive Soils: Design Considerations, Evaluation, and Remediation Seminar
Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:15 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:15 – 5:30 pm
Expansive Soil, Geotechnical Investigations, and Reports
How to read and interpret a geotechnical report
Soil remediation options
Foundations
Types of engineered foundations
Design considerations
Construction and maintenance
Foundation Performance and Evaluation
Guidelines for evaluation
Performance standards
Performance analysis
Foundation Evaluation Case Studies
Common Causes of Foundation Movement
Potential Effects of Plumbing Leaks
How to read and interpret a plumbing test report
Method of analysis
Remedial Measures
Non-structural measures and structural measures
Design of remedial measures
Remediation case studies
Post-Remediation and Maintenance
Warranties
Post-remediation documentation
Post-remediation maintenance and owner maintenance
Forensic Causation Case Studies
Additional Levels of Investigation (How to Avoid Becoming a Case Study)
Credits
Architects
7.5 HSW CEPHs/Contact Hours
7.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Landscape Architects
7.5 HSW CEPHs/Contact Hours
7.5 LA CES HSW PDHs
Professional Engineers
7.5 PDHs
Professional Geoscientists
7.5 CE Hours
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public. It offers 7.5 HSW CEPHs to Texas architects and landscape architects, 7.5 PDHs to Texas professional engineers, and 7.5 continuing education hours to Texas professional geoscientists to whom the subject matter is professionally relevant. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Texas.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 7.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885) and the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System for 7.5 HSW PDHs. Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES and LA/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 course offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to contractors. It has not been approved by any contractor licensing entity for mandatory continuing education credit.
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
Brian Eubanks
Paragon Structural Engineering, LTDMr. Eubanks is the founder and principal structural engineer of Paragon Structural Engineering, LTD, (PSE) a structural design and forensic investigation firm based in Plano, Texas. He leads a technical staff comprised of professional engineers, graduate engineers, project managers, and field technicians in the structural design and forensic investigation of planned and existing structures. Mr. Eubanks’ structural design services include analysis and engineering of large, custom single-family residences, multi-family apartment/condominium complexes, low-rise commercial facilities, warehouses and ancillary structures (retaining walls, screen walls, and swimming pools). He also performs construction-phase observations of the aforementioned structural systems to verify design compliance. Mr. Eubanks has performed engineering designs for thousands of residential and light commercial structures as well as hundreds of retaining walls, screen walls, and pools. His structural forensic services include investigations concerning soil-structure interactions, performance of structural systems, evaluation of building envelopes, and determination of cause, origin, and extent of peril damage. Soil-structure interaction assessments include claims relating to design, construction, historic/current site effects, and moisture source influences. Structural system assessments include claims relating to current or latent design and construction issues. Building envelope assessments include claims related to roof coverings, veneers, flashing, and weather resistive barriers. Peril assessments include claims relating to hurricane damage, tornado damage, lightning strikes, earthquakes, explosions, fire damage, and vehicle-structure collisions. Mr. Eubanks has performed hundreds of forensic investigations, and he has authored dozens of expert reports for use in mediation, arbitration, and/or litigation. In addition, he has provided expert witness testimony in dozens of mediations, arbitrations, and court cases. Mr. Eubanks is a licensed professional engineer in 10 states and is a board certified diplomate in forensic engineering by the National Academy of Forensic Engineers. He also serves as a member of the American Concrete Institute’s Design of Slabs-on-Ground Committee (360), the American Society of Civil Engineers Committee on Forensic Investigations and the Residential Foundation Investigation and Design Subcommittee (ASCE-Texas Section), the Post-Tensioning Institute’s Structural (DC-10A) and Construction/Maintenance (DC-10D) Subcommittees, and the ASTM International Committees on Concrete Aggregates (C-09), Forensic Engineering (E-58), Soil and Rock (D-18), and Wood (D-07). Additionally, he serves on the Board of Trustees for Prestonwood Christian Academy. Mr. Eubanks aims to educate with regard to soil-structure interaction; the design, performance, and evaluation of structural systems; the evaluation of building envelopes; and causes and origins of damage to new and existing structures, as well as remedial solutions.