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 – 5:00 pm

 

Functional Design of Parking Garages         N. Cleland

   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         N. Cleland

   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         N. Cleland

   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

Parking Structure Restoration, Repair and Maintenance         C. Kercsmar

   Benefits and challenges for various types of parking structures

   Service life expectations

   Condition assessment

   Optimum timing for repairs

   Routine repair and maintenance

   Proactive repair and maintenance

Credits

Architects

     7.0 HSW Contact Hours(CEUs)
     7.0 AIA HSW Learning Units

Professional Engineers

     7.0 PDHs (MD Category A)

Contractors

     Non-Mandatory Cont. Ed.

Continuing Education Credit Information

This seminar is open to the public and offers up to 7.0 HSW continuing education hours to architects and 7.0 PDHs to professional engineers in all states. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Virginia.

This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 7.0 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Activities approved by the AIA qualify for New Jersey and DC 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 Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Provider No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.

This course is designed for construction contractors but has not been submitted for contractor continuing education credit in any state.

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.

Chris Kercsmar

Engineering Systems, Inc., in Charlotte, NC

Senior Consultant with Engineering Systems, Inc., in Charlotte, NCMr. Kercsmar specializes in structural engineering with expertise in the investigation, evaluation, and repair/restoration of damaged and distressed buildings and other structures. He also has expertise with building envelope investigation, precast/prestressed concrete specialty engineering, fall protection consulting for buildings, parking structure consulting, and new building analysis and design. In addition, he served as a structures specialist with Virginia Task Force 1 (VA-TF1), a FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) Urban Search and Rescue team that responds to domestic disasters, as well as with USA-1, one of only two USAID-OFDA (United States Agency for International Development, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance) teams that deploys and responds to international disasters. Mr. Kercsmar holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University. He is a registered professional engineer (P.E.) in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia.