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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- 11 Students
This course provides guidance on building earth homes, such as adobe, rammed earth or pressed block houses.
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
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
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 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 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 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 gives guidance on important consideration related to erection and construction of steel bridges, and approach to design for constructibility.
The course provides methods for designing the frost protected shallow foundation, selecting insulating materials as well as its’ limits and typical applications.
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.
This course gives guidance on important consideration related to erection and construction of steel bridges, and approach to design for constructibility.
This course provides an overview of most common soil stabilization techniques, design criteria and common issues identified with using each of the soil stabilization methods.
This course provides guidance on designing foundations, including selecting appropriate materials, in coastal regions.
The Ethics Case Study: Hyatt Hotel Collapse course examines the ethical issues that arose from the 1981 collapse of atrium lobby walkways
This course provides a general overview of the planning process of a road tunnel project including alternative route study, tunnel type and tunneling method study, operation and financial planning, and risk analysis and management.
The Cut and Cover Tunnels course provides guidance on the design and construction methodology systems for cut-and-cover road tunnels
This course provides guidance on the construction methodology and excavation support systems for cut-and-cover road tunnels and describes the structural design in accordance with the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications
The Trenching and Excavation Safety online PDH course is a part of the Health and Safety category of courses. Excavation and trenching are among the most hazardous construction operations.
This course is an introduction to passive solar technology to heat buildings. You will learn the fundamentals that will allow you to move forward design cost-effective and efficient passive solar buildings.
This course contains information on design features and practices affecting natural ventilation in buildings
The Wood Based Composite Material course provides guidance on wood based composite materials, with wide range of products from fiberboard to laminated beams
The Ultra-High Performance Concrete for Bridges course provides guidance on design and construction, and actual and potential applications of UHPC
The Bridge Steel Mechanical Properties course provides guidelines on structural steel products and material properties that are used for steel bridge construction
This course provides guidelines on potential earthquake damage to hospitals and how these facilities can most efficiently improve their expected performance.
This course provides guidelines on structural, building envelope, and nonstructural building systems, and illustrates various types of wind-induced damage that affect them.
This course introduces the physical nature and mechanics of floods and explains how flood probabilities are determined and how flood hazard areas are identified.
This course provides technical guidance and recommendations concerning the construction of coastal residential buildings foundations.
This course provides technical guidance and recommendations concerning the load path and structural connections in coastal residential buildings
This course provides guidance on design and construction of residential foundations. The course includes information on concrete, masonry, and other type of foundation structures.
This course provides guidance on design loads for residential buildings and focuses on those aspects of ASCE 7 and other technical resources that are particularly relevant to the determination of design loads for residential structures.
This course provides guidance on above-grade wood structural systems in residential construction
This course provides guidelines and methodology for designing the lateral force resisting system in residential buildings.
This course provides guidelines and focuses on conventional wood connections that typically use nails, bolts, and some specialty hardware. Concrete and Masonry connections are also covered.
This course provides guidelines on calculations of wind loads and connections for photovoltaic roof fixed panels.
This online PDH course provides guidance on grading, standards, and specifications for wood commercial products
This course provides guidance on stress grades and design properties for lumber, round timber, and ties.
This course provides guidance on wood fastening techniques. The course covers fastening methods such as nails, spikes, staples, bolts, screws, connection joints, metal plates, and joist hangers.
This course provides guidelines for structural analysis of wood members.
In this course, the features of various types of wood frame building systems are described, including modern composite wood alternatives.
This course includes guidance on provisions for the 2015 International Residential Code (IRC) pertaining to single level residential wood deck construction.
This course provides guidance on important new concepts in performance-based seismic design and new knowledge about the seismic hazard facing the United States.
This course provides guidance on attaching mechanical equipment to a building to minimize earthquake damage.