Serviceability Design for the Practicing Engineer
2025-02-12 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
This session will provide practical information and design examples to evaluate the serviceability performance of buildings against requirements of the IBC and ASCE 7. It will provide detailed explanations and examples of applications of code provisions and standards specific to various materials, building systems, and building components. The webinar will also discuss the ways the codes currently address serviceability and how future versions of the code may be adapting serviceability requirements.
Engineers will have a better understanding of serviceability requirements in the building code and reference standards, including examples of common serviceability oversights made during design.
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

Deep Foundations - Overview and Design Example
2025-02-18 11:00 - 13:00
Deep foundation systems provide improved resistance to settlement and can safely support buildings founded on very poor soils. Deep foundations can also improve building performance by providing resistance to uplift loading. The design of deep foundations involves both the Geotechnical Engineer and the Structural Engineer. Thus, it is wise for the structural engineer to become more educated regarding deep foundation design. This presentation will provide an overview of deep foundations, including various systems in common use, such as driven precast concrete and structural steel piles, augercast piles, cast-in-drilled-hole piles, and micropiles. Mr. Harris will discuss the behavior of each system, as well as its best uses and limitations. The presentation will also include a worked example design for cast-in-place concrete piles resisting vertical and lateral loads.
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

Frame of Reference: Steel Moment Frames Explained
2025-02-20 11:00 - 13:00
This web seminar will discuss the structural design and detailing requirements for ordinary and special steel moment frames specified under the provisions of the 2018 IBC, ASCE 7-16, AISC 360-16, and AISC 341. Intermediate steel moment frames will only be addressed by explaining why they are not commonly used
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

EduCODE 2025
2025-02-24 - 2025-02-28 | 4500 West Tropicana Avenue • Las Vegas, NV 89103, 4500 West Tropicana Avenue, Las Vegas, NV, 89103, United States
On behalf of the Southern Nevada Chapter of the International Code Council, we welcome you to our 28th year of providing outstanding educational programs. EduCODE is designed to provide the premier educational training in the country along with several networking opportunities to provide the best overall experience. EduCODE provides nationally acclaimed instructors, daytime and evening networking opportunities through the week, industry representatives showcasing their latest products, technology and services at our daily expo, and a staff that will provide outstanding customer service to make your visit beneficial, fun, and rewarding.
Where can you choose from over 150 classes both in person and online, each ICC Preferred Provider certified? Where can you brainstorm with instructors, building, fire and code enforcement professionals, students and staff, and have fun while learning? EduCODE 2025: that’s where! Whether you attend for one day or for the entire week, virtually or in person, we are certain that you will have an exceptional experience that you will never forget.
Live at the Orleans Hotel and Virtual.
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2022 Changes to AISC 341 and 360
2025-03-05 11:00 - 13:00
The 2022 editions of AISC Specification for Structural Steel Buildings (ANSI/AISC 360-22) and the Seismic Provisions for Structural Steel Buildings (ANSI/AISC 341-22) represent the latest in structural steel design and construction. This presentation will cover the latest updates, including the exciting addition of concrete-filled coupled composite plate shear walls to both standards. Other major additions to the Specification include clarification on what to include in structural design documents; a new appendix on filled high-strength composite members; and a major expansion of the appendix on structural design for fire conditions. The Seismic Provisions now include an appendix on nonlinear response history analysis. These and many more developments will be discussed to orient users on how to start incorporating these latest standards into their practice.
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

Water Matters: The Windsor Declaration and Global Solutions for Water Scarcity (Learn Live)
2025-03-05 16:00
Join Tom Reynolds (Bathroom Manufacturers Association) and Tom Roberts (International Codes Council) for an engaging webinar during World Water Awareness Month, spotlighting the transformative Windsor Declaration. This global initiative unites bathroom manufacturers, trade associations, and certification bodies to address the urgent challenge of water scarcity. Discover how the Declaration’s commitments to water efficiency and sustainable innovation are driving systemic change and learn how you can contribute to this bold vision for a more water-resilient future.
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PART 1: 2021 IEBC - Introduction and Prescriptive Path
2025-03-11 11:00 - 13:00
Part 1 of this course will provide an overall introduction to the layout of the IEBC as well as a discussion of its importance. The portions of the code that apply to all projects will be discussed. The IEBC provides multiple paths for compliance, and Part 1 of this presentation will focus on the “Prescriptive“ path.
Part 2 will focus on the “Work Area“ and “Performance“ paths of compliance. Examples will be provided for each. The last portion of the class will include example projects that will be looked at from a prescriptive, work area, and performance approach so that attendees will have a good feel for the limitations and benefits of each method.
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

PART 2: 2021 IEBC - The Work Area and Performance Paths
2025-03-13 11:00 - 13:00
Part 2 will focus on the “Work Area“ and “Performance“ paths of compliance. Examples will be provided for each. The last portion of the class will include example projects that will be looked at from a prescriptive, work area, and performance approach so that attendees will have a good feel for the limitations and benefits of each method.
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

How Will Model Codes Need to Change to Promote Water Reuse (Learn Live)
2025-03-13 13:00
Today’s national model codes contain provisions that encourage the conservation of water through the administration of the codes but are limited in the content that promotes the reuse of water. This presentation addresses what water reuse provisions currently exist as well as what model code provisions will need to be modified to break down the barriers that exist in order to make codes a stronger promoter for the reuse of water.
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Real World Examples to Provide Fire Rated Assemblies Using Approved Methods
2025-03-18 11:00 - 13:00
The presentation will cover basic examples for providing fire rated assemblies such as walls, columns, beams and floors/roofs, for new building construction. The examples are for demonstrating compliance with the fire resistance requirements of the 2021 International Building Code. Course material presented will cover using code recognized technical resources and methods to document compliance.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants will be given instruction on the use of the approved methods recognized in Chapter 7 of the IBC for meeting the required fire resistances of the building elements.
Participants will gain a working knowledge of the technical resources available to document expected fire resistance of building elements.
Participants will be presented real world examples to determine the fire resistance requirements for key building elements including the structural frame, floors, roofs and exterior walls using the approved methods.
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

Frequently Misunderstood Foundation Design Provisions
2025-03-20 11:00 - 13:00
This web seminar addresses five misunderstood structural provisions in ASCE 7-16 related to foundation design. The following topics are discussed, including a presentation of frequently asked questions on the application of related code provisions:
1. Load combinations for foundation design.
2. Liquefaction risks and how to specifically address them.
3. Basics of soil-structure interaction and how it relates to allowable bearing pressure and subgrade modulus.
4. Challenges in design of mat foundations.
5. Detailing of deep foundation elements for various seismic and site conditions.
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

Water Research and Technology Water Management, Conservation, and Efficiency (Learn Live)
2025-03-20 14:00
This presentation will cover research initiatives focused around the sustainable development of infrastructure with the primary objective of appropriate water management, water efficiency, conservation practices, and their associated impacts. This presentation will focus on the following topics: The WISE tool, which helps optimize water reuse strategies in water-scarce regions by offering adaptable and sustainable solutions. It takes into account environmental factors and socio-economic conditions to recommend the most suitable onsite wastewater treatment (OSWT) options that meet the specific needs of users. Water Reuse Applications and strategies, as well as current roadblocks associated with these technologies. The 2021 International Water Conservation Code Provisions (IWCCP), developed by the ICC, where the introduction of innovative approaches to eliminate water scarcity at the regional and global scale through the conservation of water already in use or received from the environment.
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Design of Data Centers using Precast, Prestressed Concrete
2025-03-25 11:00 - 13:00
A data center is a building or a group of buildings that house computer systems, telecommunications components, storage systems and redundant power supplies. They support IT and network operations for business practices, artificial intelligence, artificial and augmented reality, and the “cloud”. They may be defined by size, function, and operation as onsite, edge, colocation, or hyperscale, but they generally share the common characteristics of heavy content loads, high energy consumption and mechanical cooling, fire suppression, high security and mission critical operation that cannot go out of service.
The largest proportion of data center buildings today are designed with precast, prestressed concrete. Some are designed as total precast, with precast concrete floors and roof framing carrying the heavy loads of computer racks, uninterrupted power supplies and the miles of wiring and piping on strong materials that are inherently fire resistance or fire rated. Others are designed with steel framing with precast concrete walls providing durable insulated concrete walls panels as shear walls or simply as building enclosure cladding.
This webinar will cover the applications of precast concrete in these buildings. The precast concrete framing, gravity and lateral systems, components, and connections will be reviewed as applied to both total precast and steel-framed buildings. Considerations for production and erection of precast as well as the essential coordination with mechanical, electrical, plumbing, security, and architectural installations will be discussed.
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

Global Water Solutions (Learn Live)
2025-03-27 15:00
This ICC Learn Live event will feature presentations from Australia, England, Saudi Arabia, and the Netherlands where experts will provide an overview on topics such as leak detection, desalination, water efficiency and water recycling bringing in different experiences from around the world and highlighting innovative solutions to produce, save and reuse precious drinking water.
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Tilt-Up Wall Design Provisions: Proper Application
2025-04-03 11:00 - 13:00
With over a half a billion square feet of space constructed annually, tilt-up concrete construction is a common building type in engineering offices across the nation. This economical style of construction is uniquely identified by the very slender concrete walls cast horizontally and tilted into place. This web-seminar presentation revisits the historical development of the original slender wall design recommendations in the late 1970s, and how the current slender wall design provisions in ACI match with concepts developed over 30 years ago. While these original concepts were based on empirical data from full-scale tests conducted in the early 1980s, only within the last ten years have we really begun to fully understand the behavior of these thin concrete members when subjected to combined axial load and large horizontal forces. The intent of the current code provisions will be discussed, some insight into their proper application will be provided, and examples of misapplications and gray-areas will be highlighted.
The web seminar will also include three question-and-answer periods.
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

Special Inspections
2025-04-08 11:00 - 13:00
This webinar provides a general overview of Special Inspection from Chapter 17 of the International Building Code® (IBC®).
Objectives: Upon completion of this seminar, participants will be better able to:
Describe the structural special inspections required in Chapter 17 of the IBC.
Identify the duties of the engineer of record.
Identify the tasks and required skills of the special inspector.
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

Designing to Minimize Restraint to Shortening Cracks in Post-Tensioned Structures
2025-04-10 11:00 - 13:30
Two of the main financial benefits of post-tensioning is the reduction in slab thickness and rebar compared to non-prestressed slabs. The downside side of this reduction is post-tensioned structures can be more susceptible cracking, especially if their inherent movement is prevented or restrained. The webinar will cover the structural layout and details that are primarily used in the post-tensioned structures to minimize restraint to shortening (RTS) cracks. Typical post-tensioning slip details will be explained in conjunction with construction photographs to highlight good and poor construction practices.
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11:00 AM – 1:30 PM PT

Applications and Design for Horizonal Shear and Shear Friction in Concrete Structures
2025-04-16 11:00 - 13:00
In concrete members, shear friction is considered for any interface between two concretes cast at different times, between dissimilar materials, as well as for any existing or potential crack. For composite concrete flexural members, a shear interface is created when fresh concrete is placed against hardened concrete. Design for both shear friction and horizontal shear requires careful consideration for the transfer of forces across the interface. This webinar will discuss relevant provisions for the design of these interfaces in concrete structures. The discussion will also include an overview of changes from ACI 318-19 to ACI 318-25 along with requirements in the new ACI 319-25 for precast concrete structures.
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

Common Structural Issues Observed in Plan Check
2025-04-23 11:00 - 13:00
This webinar will cover common structural challenges faced during plan review. Issues related to coordination between various design professionals, plan revisions required midway through the approval process that may impact the structural systems, Incomplete design considerations deign consideration and or improper use of building material or components.
The webinar will include discussion on the impact on the structural system when there is a change of use and occupancy and when alterations are proposed to an existing building.
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

Mat Foundation Design
2025-04-29 11:00 - 13:00
During this seminar, Ian McFarlane will discuss design of mat foundations and soil-structure interaction. The session will describe the uses of mat foundations, historical perspectives that have led to the current procedures, and discuss soil properties and soil-structure interaction. Guidance will be provided for proportioning, analysis, and design for mat foundations. Code requirements and accepted approaches to their implementation will also be addressed, with additional discussion on best practices that go beyond code minimum requirements. Finally, detailing and constructability tips will be presented. The scope of this session will include design of mat foundations for both non-seismic and high-seismic conditions.
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

Detailing for Increased Breakout Capacity of Steel Anchor Rods in Concrete Podium Slabs
2025-05-06 11:00 - 13:00
Multi-story light-frame structures are often built atop concrete podiums, and in areas of high seismicity the overturning restraint system used to secure shear walls in these buildings can produce very high tension demands on the concrete anchorage components of these systems. While the loads can be high, podium slabs tend to be fairly shallow (14” or less), and the design resistance calculated according to code provisions often isn’t enough. While anchor reinforcement detailing is address in ACI318, the form it would need to take in slab situations is not addressed. Recognizing this, a small group of practicing engineers, funded by a SEAONC Special Projects Initiative and supported by Simpson Strong-Tie, began an ambitions investigation into how to provide detailing (anchor reinforcing) that increases the breakout resistance of concrete anchors in podium slabs.
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

New Seismic Design Provisions for One-Story Structures with Flexible Diaphragms and Rigid Vertical Elements
2025-05-07 11:00 - 13:00
It has long been recognized that the seismic response of one-story tilt-up concrete wall buildings (and similar buildings with flexible diaphragms and rigid vertical elements) is controlled by the flexible diaphragm much more than the rigid vertical elements. Widely used seismic design provisions have not recognized or incorporated this behavior, however. Now, new seismic design provisions recently developed for ASCE 7-22 explicitly recognize this response behavior, drawing from extensive numerical studies published in the guideline document Seismic Design of Rigid Wall-Flexible Diaphragm Buildings: An Alternate Procedure (FEMA P-1026) and supplemental studies of bare steel deck diaphragms. In fact, the new design provisions go a step further to introduce a zone of reduced shear demand that improves seismic performance by allowing distributed yielding away from the diaphragm perimeter. This webinar will first present the concepts behind the new seismic design provisions, and the numerical studies addressed in FEMA P-1026 and supplemental bare steel deck diaphragm studies. A design example will then be presented, along with design and detailing tips and recommendations for practicing engineers.
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

Hand Calculations of a Two Way Post-Tensioned Slab
2025-05-14 11:00 - 13:30
This web seminar will provide step-by-step hand calculations for the design of a typical two-way flat slab that is commonly used for a multitude of building applications ranging from parking, hotel, office, and podium type structures. The topics of slab thickness, equivalent loads, flexural stresses, flexural strength, minimum code requirements and punching shear will be addressed. Specific code sections will be discussed in conjunction with construction photographs to highlight the design concepts.
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11:00 AM – 1:30 PM PT

Part 1 - Fundamentals of Retaining Wall Structural Design
2025-05-20 11:00 - 13:30
Part 1 will cover structural design fundamentals for a variety of retaining wall types. It will address fill walls, such as cast-in-place concrete cantilevered walls and mechanically stabilized earth walls; and cut walls, such as soldier pile walls and soil nail walls. It will address both IBC and AASHTO design methodologies, and will cover the basics of wall seismic design. It will also present guidelines for selecting the optimal retaining wall type from the available systems.
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11:00 AM – 1:30 PM PT

Part 2 - Fundamentals of Retaining Wall Structural Design
2025-05-22 11:00 - 13:30
Part 2 will focus on cast-in-place concrete cantilevered wall design, and will go into greater detail than Part 1. It will go through examples of design calculations, step-by-step, for both IBC and AASHTO methodologies. The examples will discuss the different assumptions and design criteria that can be used in retaining wall design, and how those different assumptions and criteria can impact the final design. It will also address design elements such as fall protection, vehicle barriers, soil backfill specifications and wall drainage.
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11:00 AM – 1:30 PM PT

Frequently Misunderstood Wind Provisions
2025-05-29 11:00 - 13:00
This webinar will focus on wind provisions of ASCE 7/ IBC that are frequently misunderstood or incorrectly applied, including building enclosure classification, torsional wind design, and wind load analysis methods. It will also highlight areas where the code does not offer guidance on frequently encountered situations, including solar/ PV and canopy wind loads. Lastly, this webinar will focus on ASCE 7-10 and look to the future of wind design.
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11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

When Disaster Strikes - Evaluator Training (Online Live)
2025-06-16 09:00 - 16:00
The ICC Disaster Response Inspector Program is aimed at training and certifying qualified professionals to assist with performing Post-Disaster Building Safety Evaluations.

Objectives

Discuss Various types of disasters and their impact on a community.
Demonstrate how to employ Disaster Planning Basics.
Explain the roles and duties of the Post-Disaster Building Safety Evaluator.
Discuss the ATC 20/45 Rapid and Detailed Building Safety Evaluations.
Identify various structure types.
Identify disaster-related damage to the various structure types.

2024 IBC Significant Structural Changes and ASCE 7-22 (Live Online)
2025-06-17 09:00 - 16:00
This full-day seminar reviews and analyzes selected significant structural changes from the 2021 to the 2024 edition of the International Building Code (IBC). The program identifies the specific code changes that have occurred along with the reasoning behind the changes. Topics include changes to provisions for walls (Chapter 14), roofs (Chapter 15), structural design (Chapter 16), special inspections (Chapter 17), soils/foundations (Chapter 18) and materials including concrete, masonry, steel, wood and glass (Chapters 19-24). Updated provisions for temporary structures (Chapter 31) will be discussed. Changes to the IBC-referenced 2022 ASCE/SEI 7 Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures (ASCE 7-22) will also be presented. Environmental loads discussed include rain, snow, ice, wind, tornado, earthquake, tsunami and flood.

Grant Basics for Code Officials (Learn Live)
2025-06-18 12:00 - 13:30
In recent years the federal government has prioritized the adoption and enforcement of up-to-date building codes by providing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants to support activities such as consulting, publications, and training, as well as software and accreditation. Understanding the grant application process is critical towards capturing these opportunities. In this training, you will learn the basics to effectively apply for federal grants. Participants will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate the grant lifecycle, from finding and applying for grants to initial post-award management and compliance. This course is tailored for relevant grants to Code Professionals, designed and taught by ICC staff.

AI and Its Impact on the Building Industry (Learn Live)
2025-06-19 12:00 - 13:00
AI and Its Impact on the Building Industry explores the transformative role of AI in the building industry. It covers the basics of Large Language Model AI, the ICC`s innovative AI Navigator tool, and a pilot project using ICC code content to assist in plan review. The presentation also highlights the challenges and benefits AI can bring to the building code ecosystem and delves into future possibilities for AI.
