Agenda

Registration:                        8:00 – 8:30 am

Morning Session:                8:30  – 11:30 am

Lunch (On your own):         11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Afternoon Session:             12:30 – 4:30 pm

Wood Frame Fundamentals for Residential and Small Commercial Buildings

   Short history of the development of conventional wood framing
   American Wood Council’s National Design Specification for Wood Construction
   Wood framing provisions of the International Building Code
   ASCE-7 load combinations
   Project conception and material choices
   Fire resistance considerations
   Prescriptive design for wind and seismic loads
   Roof/floor framing choices
   Beams, posts and trusses
   Design tools and software
   Anchorage/load path
   Connections and fasteners

Steel Frame Fundamentals for Residential and Small Commercial Buildings

   AISC and AISI Code applicability
   Project conception and material choices
   Schematic design choices
   Conceptual framing decisions
   Roof framing choices: truss or stick frame
   Design tools and software
   Hold down and braced wall panel design
   Connections and fasteners
   Mechanical, electrical and plumbing coordination

Credits

Professional Engineers
     6.5 Continuing Ed. Hours

Architects
     6.5 HSW Continuing Ed. Hours
     6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units

International Code Council
     .65 CEUs (Building)

Contractors
     Non-Credit Continuing Ed.

Continuing Education Credit Information

This seminar is open to the public and offers up to 6.5 continuing education hours to professional engineers and 6.5 HSW continuing education hours to architects in all states, excluding Florida architects.

HalfMoon Education is deemed a New York-approved continuing education provider for architects via its affiliation with the American Institute of Architects. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education provider for New York engineers (NYSED Sponsor No. 35) and New Jersey engineers (Approval No. 24GP00000700).

The American Institute of Architects has approved this event for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Courses approved by the AIA qualify for New Jersey and District of Columbia architects. Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.

The International Code Council has approved this event for .65 CEUs in the specialty area of Building.

HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, and North Dakota.

This event offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors, but it has not been approved by any state with a continuing education requirement for contractors.

Speakers

Patrick Conlon, PE

Founder and Managing Principal of Conlon Engineering, LLC

Mr. Conlon is a licensed professional engineer with 25 years of high-profile structural engineering experience. He has lent his expertise and creativity to large, challenging new high-profile construction projects including the iconic Yankee Stadium, the 75-story tall One57 in Manhattan, and the new 22,000 sf steel-framed column-free Blessed Kateri Church in Lagrangeville, New York, as well as numerous other projects of various scales. The owners, architects, contractors, and property managers with whom he collaborates seek him out as a project partner because of his work ethic and focused client service. As founder and managing principal of Conlon Engineering, LLC, Brookfield, Connecticut, Mr. Conlon has created a culture that is highly client-focused and disciplined, making it easy for colleagues to recommend him. He takes great pride in their ability to address structural challenges for diverse clients in the firm’s areas of new construction, renovation and structural rehabilitation of existing structures in a variety of categories including commercial, residential, industrial, office, school, religious, historic and recreational buildings; adaptive reuse projects; LEED accredited projects; peer reviews of other engineers’ work, and feasibility studies.