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 – 4:30 pm

Types of Retaining Walls

   Traditional cantilevered retaining walls
      • Reinforced concrete walls
      • Reinforced concrete masonry walls
      • Soldier pile and lagging walls
   Traditional timber walls
   Traditional gravity walls
   Reinforced soil retaining walls
   Anchored retaining walls (tie-backs, soil nailing, etc.)
   Temporary retaining walls
   Over-steepened reinforced slopes
   Gabion walls
   Crib walls
   Private-sector vs. highway retaining wall systems
   Cost of retaining walls

Retaining Wall Design – Part I

   Soil design parameters
   Lateral earth pressure
   External stability
      • Sliding
      • Overturning
      • Bearing capacity
      • Settlement
      • Scour

Retaining Wall Design – Part II

   Internal stability
   Global stability
   Special considerations for tiered retaining walls
   Backfill
   Groundwater
   Service life
   Design software

Slope Stabilization

   Science of slope stability
   Surficial vs. deep-seated slope stability
   Long term vs. short term stability
   Slope stabilization techniques
      • Regrading
      • Excavation and replacement
      • Slope reinforcement/pinning
      • Ground improvement
      • Toe retaining walls

Credits

Professional Engineers
     6.5 PDHs

Architects
     6.5 HSW CEPHs/CE Hours
     6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units

Landscape Architects
     6.5 HSW CEPHs/CE Hours
     6.5 LA CES HSW PDHs

Floodplain Managers
     6.5 ASFPM CECs

Contractors
     Non-Credit Continuing Ed

Continuing Education Credit Information

This seminar is open to the public. It offers 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers and 6.5 HSW CEPHs/continuing education hours to architects and landscape architects in most states, including Texas. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Texas.

This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885) and the Landscape Architectural Continuing Education System for 6.5 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 and landscape 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.

The Association of State Floodplain Managers has approved this event for 6.5 CECs. ASFPM approval qualifies this program for Texas floodplain managers.

This course offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. It has not been approved 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

Rajendra Meruva, P.E.

Delek Logistics

Mr. Meruva is a geotechnical engineer with 22 years of experience. He is a professional engineer (PE) in Texas, New Mexico, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee. Mr. Meruva has worked on a variety of projects, including nuclear facilities, wind turbines, bridges, hospitals, parking garages, highrise buildings, refineries, gas plants, schools, dams, landfills, and hydraulic fracking pits, and he has worked in the oil and gas industry. In his current role with Delek, he serves as a lead civil engineer providing civil/geotechnical/structural support on oil and gas midstream facilities. He also provides training to junior and entry-level staff. Mr. Meruva earned his M.S. degree in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Houston in Houston, Texas.