[Live Webinar] Inspecting Buildings for Dangerous Conditions

Course Outline:

1. The seven ages of civil engineering and their legacy
2. Modern civil engineering after the industrial revolution
3. Causes of collapses
4. Codes of practice in the last 100 years -the change to performance and risk assessment
5. Moving from static assessment – changes to design that affect risk
6. What risk is acceptable for wind, earthquake and flood. The statistical approach.
7. Indications for a localized problem in a building. What to look for.
8. Indications for an overall (holistic) problem for a building – how to assess it.
9. Building inspections and what to look for