Residential Structural Design Guide

Course Summary

This course provides guidance on the unique structural engineering knowledge related to housing design and performance. It compliments current design practices and building code requirements. In doing so, it supplements fundamental engineering principles with various technical resources and insights that focus on improving the understanding of housing construction. Thus, it attempts to address deficiencies and inefficiencies in past housing construction practices and structural engineering concepts through approaches that draw on existing engineering technologies in a practical manner.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, the participant should have an understanding of American housing relative to its history, construction characteristics, regulation, and performance experience. The participant should also be equipped with the latest technical knowledge and engineering approaches for the design of homes to complement current code-prescribed design methods.

Course Author

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Certificate of completion of the course

This course comes with a multiple-choice quiz. You can view the quiz and take the quiz if you are logged in your account. You can take the quiz for this online PDH course as many times until passed. The passing grade is 70% and above. After you pass the quiz simply follow the page, to pay for the course and print your certificate instantly. A copy of the certificate and receipt for this course will always be in your account.

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This online PDH course can also be used as a continuing education course for the following.

Architects

Civil Engineering

Structural Engineering

Home & Building Inspectors