Learn how to overcome common design challenges that may impact and impede the construction process.
Learn about difficult development and construction issues that may arise at your project site due to adverse soil conditions, ground and surface water, and weather. You will also learn about an emerging area of engineering concern, which is threats to buildings and facilities presented by terrorist and extraordinary natural activity.
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to recognize groundwater and surface water conditions at excavation and construction sites that may impact design and impede the construction process.
- You will be able to discuss weather-related issues at the project site, particularly in cold, arctic and sub-arctic regions.
- You will be able to explain corrosive soil conditions and how to protect your structures and utilities from harmful corrosion.
- You will be able to identify problematic soil conditions at a project site and address such issues as those driven by slope, compaction, subsidence and erosion.
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Agenda
What Makes a Difficult Site?
Soil Conditions
Water
Weather
Corrosion
Progressive Structural Collapse
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Credits
OnDemand Course
This course was last revised on December 16, 2020.
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This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.
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Faculty
J. Paul Guyer, P.E., R.A.
Guyer Partners
- Managing general partner, Guyer Partners
- Registered mechanical engineer, fire protection engineer, civil engineer, and architect with 35 years of experience designing a wide variety of building and infrastructure projects; for an additional nine years, he was a principal staff advisor to the California legislature on infrastructure and capital outlay issues
- Currently editor-in-chief of The Clubhouse Press, the largest publisher in the U.S. of continuing education products for professional engineers, architects, and construction managers
- Has held numerous national, state, and local offices with the American Society of Civil Engineers, Architectural Engineering Institute, and National Society of Professional Engineers
- Regularly presents live continuing education webinars for professional engineers, architects, and construction managers
- Authored and edited numerous articles and papers in the field of infrastructure engineering
- Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Architectural Engineering Institute, and Chartered Association of Building Engineers (U.K.)
- Graduate, Stanford University
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