Climate Action for New York Architects and Engineers
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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.
Learn more about the on-demand format in our FAQ or contact us at (715) 835-5900 or customerservice@halfmoonseminars.org
Agenda
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Please log into the webinar 10-15 minutes before start time.
Friday, June 12, 2026
8:30 am – 3:30 pm EDT
Agenda:
Presented by James A. D’Aloisio , P.E. LEED AP
Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC) Overview
- Greenhouse effect
- Atmospheric greenhouse gases
- Verifiable data historic trends
- Review of recent events
- What we know and what we don’t
- Sociological and cultural underpinnings of the various perspectives of climate change
- Greenhouse gas mitigation and economics
- Summary
Categories of Action
- Mitigation vs. adaptation and resilience
- Various categories of mitigation
- Personal, professional, political action
- Effectiveness of different types of action
- Economics of carbon reduction
- Geo-engineering pros and cons
- Metrics: quantifying carbon
- Solution strategies
- Consider the role of the engineering community in the development and implementation of solutions
- Our role/your role
Structural and Infrastructure Mitigation
- Embodied carbon vs. operational carbon
- Sources of embodied carbon information
- EPDs and life-cycle assessments
- Carbon pallet for various structural materials
- Example building
- Mitigation concepts: basic to transformative
- Development and implementation of solutions
- Conclusions/questions
Webinar Instructions
All attendees must log-on through their own email – attendees may not watch together if they wish to earn continuing education credit. HalfMoon Education Inc. must be able to prove attendance if either the attendee or HalfMoon Education Inc. is audited.
Certificates of completion can be downloaded in PDF form upon passing a short quiz. A link to the quiz will be sent to each qualifying attendee immediately after the webinar. The certificate can be downloaded from the Results page of the quiz upon scoring 80% or higher.
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Credits
Engineers
6.0 PDHs
Architects
6.0 HSW CE Hours
AIA - American Institute of Architects
6.0 HSW LUs
Continuing Education Information
This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 6.0 PDHs for professional engineers and 6.0 HSW continuing education hours for licensed architects in New York.
HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York engineers and architects via its registration with the American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System (Regulations of the Commissioner §68.14(i)(2) and §69.6(i)(2)).
The American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System has approved this course for 6.0 HSW LUs (Sponsor No. J885). Only full participation is reportable to the AIA/CES.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the webinar for those who attend the entire course and score a minimum 80% on the quiz that follows the course (multiple attempts allowed).
*On-Demand Credits*
The preceding credit information only applies to the live presentation. This course in an on-demand format is not pre-approved by any licensing boards and may not qualify for the same credits; please consult your licensing board(s) to ensure that a structured, asynchronous learning format is appropriate. The following pre-approvals may be available for the on-demand format upon request:
6.0 HSW LUs (AIA)
Speakers
James A. D’Aloisio, P.E. LEED AP
Principal with Klepper, Hahn & Hyatt in SyracuseMr. D’Aloisio is a principal with Klepper, Hahn & Hyatt, a structural engineering, landscape architecture, and building envelope services firm in East Syracuse, New York. A graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is a registered professional engineer in New York and Massachusetts. He is a member and past president (1997 – 1998) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Syracuse Section, and a member of the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the American Concrete Institute (ACI), the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), and the Structural Engineers Association of New York State (SEAoNY). Mr. D’Aloisio is a member of ASCE/SEI’s Frost-Protected Shallow Foundations Committee, the Structural Condition Assessment of Existing Buildings Committee, and the Sustainability Committee. Mr. D’Aloisio received the Order of the Engineer at Syracuse University in 1997. His 30-plus years’ experience as a consulting structural engineer has primarily involved the design of new building structures, additions, and modifications, and analyses, assessments, and investigations of structures and facades. Mr. D’Aloisio has performed structural condition reviews of over 15 million square feet of buildings and he has performed over 150 structural forensic investigations. He has presented over 300 times.
AIA Info
AIA Provider Statement:
HalfMoon Education Inc. is a registered provider of AIA-approved continuing education under Provider Number J885. All registered AIA/CES Providers must comply with the AIA Standards for Continuing Education Programs. Any questions or concerns about this provider of learning program may be sent to AIA/CES (cesupport@aia.org or (800) AIA 3837, Option 3).
This learning program is registered with AIA/CES for continuing professional education. As such, it does not include content that may be deemed or construed to be an approval or endorsement by the AIA of any material of construction or any method or manner of handling, using, distributing, or dealing in any material or product.
AIA continuing education credit has been reviewed and approved by AIA/CES. Learners must complete the entire learning program to receive continuing education credit. AIA continuing education Learning Units earned upon completion of this course will be reported to AIA/CES for AIA members. Certificates of Completion for both AIA members and non-AIA members are available upon request.
Course Title: Climate Action for New York Architects and Engineers
Delivery Method: Live Online
Course Description: This six‑hour course examines climate change and greenhouse gas trends in order to understand the conditions shaping today’s design environment. The course discusses categories of action, including mitigation, adaptation, resilience, and carbon‑reduction strategies that affect decisions about materials, systems, and project planning. The program also explores embodied and operational carbon, life‑cycle information, and structural mitigation concepts that influence how professionals approach building performance and long‑term environmental impact.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objective 1: Learners will be able to discuss anthropogenic climate change, greenhouse gases, and historic trends.
Learning Objective 2: Learners will be able to examine categories of action, the economics of carbon reduction, and geo‑engineering considerations.
Learning Objective 3: Learners will be able to analyze sources of carbon, environmental product declarations, and life‑cycle assessments.
Learning Objective 4: Learners will be able to evaluate structural and infrastructure mitigation concepts, including the development and implementation of solutions.
LUs: 6.0
LU Type: LU|HSWs
Prerequisites: None
Advance Preparation: None
Program Level: Intermediate
Course Expiration Date: 03/15/2029
Complaint Resolution Policy:
Complaints regarding this course can be emailed to fchapman@halfmoonseminars.org or by calling (715) 835-5900. A HalfMoon Education representative will respond within 72 hours to resolve the complaint, which will include, but not limited to, access to another CE activity at no or reduced cost or a full or partial refund. Each instance will be resolved on a case-by-case situation.
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