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 – 5:00 pm
Designing and Constructing to Prevent Failures
Purpose of forensic engineering
Importance of standards and codes
Design professional duties and the design process
Understanding the standard of care
Legal and economic impacts of failures
Case study – a question of ethics
Understanding Causes of Structural Failures
Lessons learned from historic failures
Design errors
Defective construction
Material deficiencies
Excessive loadings
Deterioration and degradation
Forensic Examination of Structures
Investigation of steel structures
Investigation of wood structures
Investigation of concrete structures
Investigation of masonry and building facades
Load testing and instrumentation of existing structures
Understanding the Forensic Engineering Process
Conducting investigation and research
Documenting the failure
Sampling and collection of evidence
Determining causation and responsibility
Using Forensic Engineering Information
Examining the forensic engineering report
Impact of forensic engineering information on post-failure disputes
Use of forensic engineering information in mediation, arbitration
and litigation
The forensic engineer as consultant, expert and witness
Mediation case study – engineer as a murderer?
Credits
Professional Engineers
7.0 PDHs
Architects
7.0 HSW Continuing Ed. Hours
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 professional engineers and 7.0 HSW continuing education hours to architects in all states, excluding Florida architects. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Ohio.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York architects.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 7.0 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.
This course offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to contractors. It has not been approved by any state contractor licensing entity for licensing maintenance.
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
Paul Bosela
Bosela Forensic Engineering Consultants, LLCBosela Forensic Engineering Consultants, LLC
Mr. Bosela is a licensed professional engineer (Ohio and Pennsylvania) and is an accredited professional in Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED). He has investigated numerous failure cases and/or performance-related problems for private clients and is responsible for determining the cause and extent of damage to structures, including, but not limited to, roof truss failures, roof collapses, foundation failures, storm-related damage, etc. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Civil Engineering from Cleveland State University and previously worked in the construction industry for a prominent construction manager/general contractor on some high-profile projects, such as The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Cavaliers Training Facility. In addition, Mr. Bosela worked as a structural engineer providing design and analysis for structural products for the construction sector and as a structural design engineer for sports, commercial and industrial markets. Some of the construction products include, adjustable steel columns, telescoping posts and insulated concrete form (ICF) bracing. For the telescoping posts, he developed a design approach for providing a safe load capacity. Mr. Bosela has also worked with several product evaluation and testing agencies in the U.S. and Canada.
Paul Bosela
Bosela Forensic Engineering Consultants, LLCBosela Forensic Engineering Consultants, LLC
Dr. Paul Bosela is a professor emeritus of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Cleveland State University and partner in Bosela Forensic Engineering Consultants, LLC. He retired from CSU after 28 years of service, including ten years as department chair. Dr. Bosela has extensive forensic engineering experience in the investigation of structural failures. He has investigated hundreds of failure cases for private clients, including the determination of the cause and extent of damages to structures, such as roof collapse, foundation failure, beam failure, collapse during construction, building envelope problems, etc. He has served on the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Forensic Engineering Division (FED), formerly the Technical Council on Forensic Engineering (TCFE) since 1986, including terms as chairman of both the Executive and Education Committees. He has lectured on forensic engineering throughout the U.S., and in Costa Rica, Ecuador, India, Italy, and Great Britain, and he strives to bring lessons learned from failures into the civil engineering curriculum. Dr. Bosela was a co-editor of the Proceedings of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th ASCE Forensic Engineering Congresses, and co-editor of Failure Case Studies in Civil Engineering: Structures, Foundations and the Geo-Environment (ASCE 2013), as well as numerous journal articles and conference presentations.
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