Structural Forensic Engineering
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Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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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
Examining the Role of Forensic Engineering
Causes and consequences of structural failures
Importance of good design
Impact of codes and standards
Legal and economic impacts of failures
Results and consequences of forensic engineering
Understanding the Forensic Engineering Process
Documenting the failure
Conducting investigation and research
Test protocols and tests
Determining causation and responsibility
Learning from failure
Preparing the Forensic Engineering Report
Identifying the report’s purpose and its audience
Examining content
Organizing the report
Evaluating sample reports
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
Using Forensic Engineering and Architecture Information in Dispute Resolution
Examining the nature of post-failure disputes
Mediating, arbitrating and litigating disputes
Presenting forensic engineering information as an expert witness
• Expert witness qualifications
• Offering testimony as an expert witness
Credits
Architects
6.5 HSW CEHs
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Contractors
Non-Mandatory Cont. Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 HSW continuing education hours to architects and 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers in all states. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Mississippi.
The American Institute of Architects has approved this course for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885).
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for architects in Florida (Provider No. 0001388; License No. PVD394) and is deemed an approved sponsor inNew York. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida (Provider No. 0004647), Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35),North Carolina, and North Dakota.
This seminar offers construction contractors a continuing education opportunity. It has not been approved by any state contractor licensing board for continuing education purposes.
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
J. English
CAT Forensic Services, LLCCAT Forensic Services, LLCMr. English is the senior forensic engineer for the CAT Forensic Services, LLC, office located in the Kansas City area. He is licensed as a professional engineer in 11 states, generally through the mid-continent and along the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. English is approaching his 19th year in the forensic engineering field and continues consulting in multiple phases of the service life of a variety of structures. He conducts forensic evaluations of structures nationally to assess effects from man-made and natural sources. Mr. English has extensive experience in the effects of wind, hail impact, vibration/explosion, earthquake, hurricanes/typhoons, waves/surface flooding, foundation movement/failure, collapse and structural deficiencies, etc. He has also conducted small and large-scale evaluations of structures regarding water ingress, building science, exterior envelope, floorings, claddings, window assemblies, and verification of construction compliance with applicable building codes and contract specifications. Mr. English is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the ASTM International (American Society of Testing and Materials), the ASTM Committee E06 on Performance of Buildings, and the ASTM Committee D08 on Roofing and Waterproofing. He was a member of an eight-person team of ASCE that studied the effects of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) on Leyte Island in the Philippines in May of 2014. Mr. English earned his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Iowa State University of Science & Technology, his M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Houston, and his J.D. degree from the University of Houston Law Center.
Doug Parkhurst
Senior Forensic Engineer for the CAT Forensic Services office located in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Mr. Parkhurst holds a B.S. degree in Materials Engineering and an M.S. degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering, and he is a registered professional engineer in Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Oregon and South Carolina. Mr. Parkhurst has performed hundreds of evaluations and investigations with respect to residential, commercial, and agricultural structures, as well as municipal infrastructure components, to document and analyze failures from the effects of wind, vibrations, explosions, earthquakes, floods, foundation failures, moisture intrusion, construction defects, cathodic protection systems, lightning damage, manufacturing defects, corrosion failures, weld failures, building envelope failures, and failures of components and cladding, as well as failures of a variety of materials used in construction of modern and historic structures. Mr. Parkhurst is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Structural Engineers Institute (SEI). Mr. Parkhurst consults and provides educational services related to failures of residential, commercial, and agricultural structures.