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

Functional Design of Parking Garages

   Parking structure classification
   Determining parking occupancy type
   Site design
   Parking structure planning
      Layout
      Circulation
      Vertical communication
   Drainage
   Fire prevention and protection
   Vehicle and pedestrian egress

Precast Parking Structure System Design

   Structural requirements for parking garages
      Seismic design
      Wind load resistance
   Use of shear walls
   Horizontal vs. vertical walls
   Simplified stiffness analysis
   Resistance to overturning
   Moment-resisting frames
   Diaphragm design

Connection Design Considerations

   Horizontal components:
      Double tees, inverted tee beams,
      spandrel beams, slabs and stairs
   Vertical components:
      Columns, ramp walls, shear walls, stair walls
   Lessons from design experience

Precast Garage Maintenance

   Why does a precast garage need maintenance?
   Maintenance manual and schedule
   Sealant maintenance and repair
   Common maintenance repairs

Credits

Architects
     6.5 HSW CE Hours
     6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units

Professional Engineers
     6.5 PDHs

Contractors
     Non-Credit Continuing Ed.

Continuing Education Credit Information

This seminar is open to the public and offers up to 6.5 continuing education hours to architects and 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers in all states. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education provider for New Jersey engineers (Approval No. 24GP00000700).

This event has been approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Courses approved by the AIA qualify for New Jersey architects.

HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for architects in Florida and is deemed an approved sponsor in New York. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.

This seminar also offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to contractors; it has not been approved in any state which has 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

Ned Cleland

Blue Ridge Design, Inc.

Blue Ridge Design, Inc., in Winchester, VADr. Cleland has 40 years of experience in structural analysis, design, research, and engineering management. Dr. Cleland has designed or directed the design of nearly 300 parking garages either as specialty structural engineer or as structural engineer of record, and he has extensive experience in precast/prestressed design, detailing and construction. He is the immediate past chairman of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Technical Committee on Parking Garages when the PCI Recommended Practice was updated to the 3rd Edition. He co-authored the PCI Seismic Design Manual with Dr. S.K. Ghosh for the 1st and 2nd Editions. Dr. Cleland is currently a member the American Concrete Institute Committee 318, and he serves on 318-G, the prestressed concrete subcommittee, and on 318-H, the seismic design subcommittee. He is a member of ACI 362 on parking garages. Dr. Cleland is also chairman of the Technical Activities Council of PCI and has served on this committee for 18 years.