Maine Civil 30 PDH Discount Package 3

This online engineering PDH course provides basic information on how communities can integrate green infrastructure into their Local Hazard Mitigation Plans.

Communities across the United States are facing a variety of challenges, from outdated infrastructure, to water quality protection, to the need to increase community resilience and mitigate the impacts of flooding and other hazards. These communities are looking for multi-purpose solutions to these challenges.

Green infrastructure is one approach to improve water quality and address flooding challenges. Green infrastructure yields many benefits, including improved water quality, reduced flooding, infrastructure cost savings, and healthier communities. While green infrastructure alone may not fully address these issues, however, it adds capacity, flexibility, and resilience to other infrastructure systems and provides multiple community benefits.

This online engineering PDH course discusses site-level considerations for development. The intent of this guidance is to provide concepts for integrating land use planning, landscape architecture (vegetation, landforms, and water), site planning, and other strategies to mitigate the design basis threats as identified via the risk assessment.

Integrating security requirements into a larger, more comprehensive approach necessitates achieving a balance among many objectives such as reducing risk; facilitating proper building function; aesthetics and matching architecture; hardening of physical structures beyond required building codes and standards; and maximizing use of non-structural systems.

This 5 PDH online course is applicable to engineers, planners, architects, landscape designers, construction and operations personnel, security and law enforcement agents, as well as consultants and contractors to gain a better understanding in identifying and implementing crucial asset protection measures when planning and designing the site against potential terrorist attacks.

This online engineering PDH course provides an overview of the common problems and typical repairs and includes a visual system for evaluating and rating PCC pavements.

To manage aviation airfield pavements effectively, all pavements’ conditions should be periodically checked and then organized in an inventory in order to use these evaluations to set priorities for the project or find alternative treatments.

A comprehensive pavement management system involves collecting data and assessing several pavement characteristics: roughness, surface distress (condition), surface skid characteristics, drainage, and structure (pavement strength and deflection). Based on this data and combined with the economic analysis of the project, planners can develop treatment measures for the pavements.

This online engineering PDH course provides guidance on evaluating the condition of the concrete in a structure, relating the condition of the concrete to the underlying causes of that condition, and selecting an appropriate repair material and method for any deficiency found. A basic understanding of underlying causes of concrete deficiencies is essential to perform meaningful evaluations of concrete structures.

This 5 PDH online course is applicable to civil, geotechnical and structural engineers, as well as design and construction personnel working on construction projects involving evaluation and repair of concrete structures.

This online engineering PDH course discusses the most common guidelines on the design, construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation of continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP).

Continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP) was introduced in the United States almost 100 years ago when the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads (now the Federal Highway Administration) constructed a CRCP test section on Columbia Pike in Arlington, Virginia. Since then, CRCP has been constructed in many states in the U.S. and in a number of other countries. As experience with the design and construction of CRCP has grown, a variety of lessons learned through practical experience and research have contributed to the development of best practices for CRCP throughout its life cycle.

Today, CRCP is designed and constructed as a pavement of choice for long-life performance, recognizing that initial smoothness will be maintained for decades and that maintenance during that time will be minimal.

This online engineering PDH course describes typical loads for the design of reinforced concrete hydraulic structures (RCHS) and provides detailed information on design procedures along with examples of their application.

Reinforced concrete hydraulic structures have very long service lives and are subject to different types of loads, severe climatic conditions and sometimes to chemically contaminated atmosphere. To ensure a satisfactory long term service and to provide a safe, reliable and cost effective hydraulic structures, industry design and construction standards should be adopted.

Satisfactory long-term service requires that the saturated concrete be highly resistant to deterioration due to daily or seasonal weather cycles and tidal fluctuations at coastal sites. The often relatively massive members of RCHS must have adequate density and impermeability, and must sustain minimal cracking for control of leakage and for control of corrosion of the reinforcement. Most RCHS are lightly reinforced structures (reinforcement ratios less than 1%) composed of thick walls and slabs that have limited ductility compared to the fully ductile behavior of reinforced concrete buildings (in which reinforcement ratios are typically 1% or greater).

This online engineering PDH course provides engineers with insights into the complex interactions between water, sediment, and vegetation, enabling them to design and implement effective solutions for managing and preserving fluvial systems and their associated habitats.

Fluvial systems encompass wetlands, stream and floodplains and play essential roles in ecological balance and hydrological processes. They receive surface and/or groundwater that travel downstream, collecting and transporting sediments along the landscape. Understanding the erosion, sedimentation and flood dynamics is important in designing effective strategies for flood control, habitat restoration, and sustainable land management.