Shallow Foundation Design and Construction Seminar
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
Evaluating Building Sites
Soil mechanics overview
Site exploration
Subsurface exploration
Laboratory soil testing
Design soil profile
Allowable Settlement and Consolidation
Determining bearing capacity
Understanding consolidation and settlement
Effects of load types and soil types
Increasing bearing capacity
Shallow Foundation Design
Spread footings
Mat foundations
Monolithic foundations
Hybrid/intermediate foundations
• Helical piers
• Aggregate rammed piers (vibro-piers/geopiers)
Shallow Foundation Construction
Grading and soil improvement
Dewatering and drainage
Excavation and underpinning
Complying with building codes
Basements as foundations
IBC Special Inspection and Quality Control
International Building Code “Chapter 17”
Geotechnical specifications and quality control
Testing, reporting, and certification
Case Studies
Design and construction challenges
Soil stabilization with lime or cement
Soil improvement with aggregate rammed piers
Foundation stabilization vs intermediate foundations
Credits
Professional Engineers
7.0 PDHs
Architects
7.0 Public Protection PDUs
7.0 AIA HSW Learning Units
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 7.0 PDHs to Georgia professional engineers and 7.0 Public Protection PDUs to Georgia architects. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Georgia.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 7.0 HSW Learning Units (Provider No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.
Architects and engineers seeking continuing education credit in other states will be able to apply the hours earned at this seminar. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education provider for Florida architects and is deemed an approved architect continuing education sponsor in New York.
This course offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. It has not been approved by any contractor licensing board for mandatory continuing education.
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
Sam Alyateem
Matrix Engineering Group, Inc.Founding member of Matrix Engineering Group, Inc.
Mr. Alyateem is a registered civil engineer and a founding member of Matrix Engineering Group, Inc., Philadelphia Post Tensioning, LLC, and LGC Grading & Construction, Inc. He has over 34 years of experience in engineering and construction fields. Mr. Alyateem received his bachelor degree in Civil Engineering and master of science degree in Geotechnical Engineering from University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Mr. Alyateem is a registered professional engineer in the states of Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. He served on the 2012 SEAOG/ACEC Special Inspections Committee commissioned to review and update of Georgia 2012 Amendments to the International Building Code, as well as on the DeKalb County permitting improvement process committee. He has SBCCI building inspector certification, ICC residential building inspector certification and Level II certified design professional – GSWCC. He has authored and co-authored several technical engineering publications in the geotechnical field. Mr. Alyateem worked on several large projects in the Southeast including large commercial and institutional facilities, airports, water and wastewater treatment plants, land developments, tunnels, and high-rise structures. Most notable projects include Atlanta Hartsfield Airport expansion projects, most of the Atlanta Olympic projects, and several MARTA expansion projects including underground structures, buildings, and aerial structures.
Amin Tomeh
Matrix Engineering Group, Inc.Principal, Matrix Engineering Group, Inc.
Mr. Tomeh is a principal and co-founder of Matrix Engineering Group, an award-winning consultancy group, based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in geotechnical engineering, environmental engineering, construction materials testing, special inspections and geophysical surveys. He is a registered professional engineer and a certified project management professional. Mr. Tomeh has pioneered several systems and work flow processes as they relate to ICC special inspections and construction materials testing; and he has innovated the use of geophysics (refraction and multi-channel analysis of surface waves) to non-invasively enhance and supplement the traditional geotechnical characterization of sites and important structures. He is an adjunct professor at Southern Polytechnic State University Department of Construction Management and serves on the Commercial Construction Management Advisory Board at Gwinnett Technical College. Mr. Tomeh is a voting member in ASTM Committee D18 and is a member of the American Concrete Institute. He earned his bachelor of science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and his master of science degree in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Tomeh was accepted in 2015 into the Academy of Geo-Professionals (AGP), as a diplomate, geotechnical engineering (D.GE). Considered one of the highest designations in the geo-profession, only about 300 engineers have achieved the D.GE status.