A-001 A Guide to Building Earth Homes: 6 PDH
This course provides guidance on building earth homes, such as adobe, rammed earth or pressed block houses.
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Teacher Ivan Jelic
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This course provides guidance on building earth homes, such as adobe, rammed earth or pressed block houses.
This seminar provides information, guidance and training on the parking requirements of the 2010 regulations of the ADA
This course provides general guidance to help architects, engineers, and business owners understand and comply with the Justice Department’s revised ADA regulations and the 2010 Standards for accessible buildings.
This course provides general guidance to help architects, engineers, and public entities understand how to comply with the Justice Department’s revised ADA regulations and the 2010 Standards for accessible buildings.
This course provides guidance on The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a Federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities
This course highlights mitigation measures that may be applied to building elements, including architectural, structural, and building envelope systems.
This course highlights threat mitigation of terrorist attacks against high occupancy buildings, a challenging task
This course will help users identify, prioritize, and implement mitigation actions across the full spectrum of hazards and maximize the efficient allocation of public resources
This course reviews the performance based design approach for school projects in earthquake, flood and high wind areas
Public Right of Way Accessibility Guidelines The Public Right of Way Accessibility Guidelines online PDH course is a part of the Building Design category of courses. This course is an overview of the United States Access Board’s Proposed Guidelines for Pedestrian Facilities in the Public Right-of-Way. It covers the mandatory compliance required by regulations issued by federal…
This course reviews the potential manmade threats to which a shelter may be exposed and the level of protection (LOP) that may be assumed by building owners when deciding to build a shelter
The Transit Security Access Management course defines the parameters of access management and describes the challenges of incorporating access management into the transit environment
Transit Security – Infrastructure course provides an overview of transit infrastructure including the stationary assets in a system such as real estate, tunnels, rail tracks
The Transit Security course helps increase awareness of, and explains how policy makers and designers can use the design to protect employees and passengers
This guidance applies to design and construction by the architects, engineers, other consultants, and contractors hired for those projects by VA
This course provides technical guidance and recommendations on building materials used in coastal residential buildings.
This course provides a summary of all recommendations for exceeding National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) regulatory requirements concerning coastal construction.
This course provides technical guidance and recommendations on design, construction and maintenance of building envelope elements
This course provides technical guidance and recommendations on design, construction and maintenance of building attachments such as enclosures and breakaway walls, decks, pools and other attached structures, as well as utilities.
The Building Repairs and Retrofits in Coastal Areas course provides guidelines for repairs, remodeling and additions as per NFIP requirements
The Acoustic Comfort online PDH course covers the acoustic comfort in offices, classrooms, and conference rooms.
This course introduces the basics of residential and small-scale commercial rainwater harvesting systems design. It is intended to serve as a first step in considering options for constructing a rainwater harvesting system or implementing a harvesting program.
This course introduces you to the concepts of site surveys, including construction surveys, bench marks, datum, and mean sea level.
This online course introduces you to Environmental Protection and Best Management Practices (BMPs) for planning and conducting transmission line construction and maintenance activities.
This course covers a full range of topics and design examples intended to provide engineers with the information needed to make knowledgeable decisions regarding the selection, design, fabrication, and construction of bracing systems for bridges.
This course provides practical information regarding the decking options and design considerations for steel bridges, presenting deck types such as concrete deck slabs, metal grid decks, orthotropic steel decks, wood decks, and several others.
This course discusses site-level considerations for development as mitigation measures against building terrorism.
This 4 PDH online course provides guidance on the design and construction of conduits, culverts, and pipes, and design procedures for trench/embankment earth loadings, highway loadings, railroad loadings, surface concentrated loadings, and internal/external fluid pressures.
This 7 PDH online course provides guidelines and criteria for the design of pavements for roads, streets, walks, and open storage areas.
This course provides guidance on how to establish the cause or causes for distress and deterioration of concrete, and the damage that has been detected.
This course contains guidelines and procedures for the design and construction of skid-resistant pavement, pavement evaluation with friction measuring equipment, and maintenance of high skid-resistant pavements.
This course provides guidelines for operational safety on airports during construction.
This course provides guidance on best practices for earthquake-resistant house design and construction for use by builders, designers, code enforcement personnel, and potential homeowners
This course provides guidance on best practices for earthquake-resistant house design and construction for use by builders, designers, code enforcement personnel, and potential homeowners. It also introduces and explains the effects of earthquake loads on one- and two-family detached houses and identifies the code requirements intended to resist these loads.
This course provides guidance on pavement sustainability concepts and on recommended practices for maximizing the sustainability of concrete pavements
Roundabouts are a common form of intersection control used throughout the world and increasingly in the United States. The course provides guidance on geometric planning and design, for single and multi-lane roundabouts.
This course gives guidance on using of concrete admixtures to ensure quality and appropriate concrete properties are achieved during design and placing of concrete mixes.
This online course provides guidance in the design, installation, grouting and inspection of post-tensioning tendons for prestressed concrete bridges.
This course presents guidance for selecting economical foundations on expansive soil to minimize structural distress to within tolerable levels and guidance for minimizing problems that may occur in structures on expansive soils.
This course provides a general description of the various concrete deck types, a discussion of the basic structural behavior of concrete decks, and an overview of major design and detailing considerations.
The Concrete Construction course provides information on concrete form design and concrete mix design, reinforcement properties, as well as the procedures in batching concrete.
This course provides guidance on concepts and techniques for urban watershed restoration and provides a framework to evaluate subwatershed restoration potential.
This course outlines fundamentals of bridge surveying
The Extending Service Life of Existing RC Pavements course provides information on best practices in rehabilitation strategies for extending the service life of continuously reinforced concrete pavements
This course gives guidance on important consideration related to erection and construction of steel bridges, and approach to design for constructibility.
This course discusses the freeze-thaw resistance of several “marginal” air void mixes, with two different types of air-entraining admixtures (AEA)—a Vinsol resin and a synthetic admixture.
This 4 PDH online course provides an integrated approach to manage the solids generated in urban wet weather flows (WWFs), both on the land surface and in drainage sewer systems.
The course provides methods for designing the frost protected shallow foundation, selecting insulating materials as well as its’ limits and typical applications.
The Bases and Subbases for Concrete Pavements course is intended for civil engineers and other construction professionals interested in learning about Bases and Subbases for Concrete Pavements.
This course focuses on a recently recognized form of deterioration on concrete pavements referred to as chemical deicer distress.
This course will introduce you to processes and equipment for primary treatment of wastewater.
This course discusses the activated sludge process employed extensively throughout the world in its conventional form and modified forms, all of which are capable of meeting secondary treatment effluent limits at wastewater treatment plants.
This course will introduce you to design and construction of levees for flood protection and in connection with a variety of water resources projects such as dams, reservoirs and aqueducts.
This course will introduce you to methods for controlling seepage and settlement in the construction of levees, and to generally acceptable guidelines for levee slopes.
The Bridge Concrete Decks course outlines fundamentals basic structural behavior of various concrete decks, and major design and detailing considerations
The course provides methods for designing the FPSF, selecting insulating materials as well as its’ limits and typical applications. Both simplified FPSF design method and detailed FPSF design method (for both heated and unheated buildings) are introduced.
The Sewer Sediment and Control course gives an introduction to an integrated approach to manage the solids generated in urban wet weather flows
Pavement Design in Seasonal Frost Conditions course introduces special methods for pavement design of roads, parking and open storage areas in frost conditions
This course gives guidance on important consideration related to erection and construction of steel bridges, and approach to design for constructibility.
This course provides information about four natural gas pipeline flow equations, along with information about the fluid properties needed and their estimation or calculation.