Residential Structural Design for Home Inspectors Course
Welcome to InterNACHI's free, online Residential Structural Design for Home Inspectors Course. Goal:
Welcome to InterNACHI’s free, online Residential Structural Design for Home Inspectors Course. This course will help the inspector learn how to perform phase, OverSeeIt inspections, and pre-drywall inspections on new residential buildings using fundamental structural principles and a comprehensive design approach to construction that draws on existing and innovative engineering technologies in a practical manner.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: 
- present a sound perspective on North American housing relative to its history, construction characteristics, regulation, and performance experience;
- provide the latest technical knowledge and engineering approaches for the design of homes to complement current code-prescribed design methods;
- assemble relevant design data and methods in a single, comprehensive format that is instructional and simple to apply for the complete design of a home; and
- reveal areas where gaps in existing research, design specifications, and analytic tools necessitate alternative methods of design and sound engineering judgment to produce efficient designs.
Course includes:
- 19.0 InterNACHI® credit hours;
- 101,009 words;
- student book;
- inspection and writing assignment;
- research and writing assignment;
- 192 quiz questions in 13 quizzes;
- 70-question final exam (drawn from a larger pool);
- instant grading; and
- a downloadable, printable Certificate of Completion.
Residential Structural Design for Home Inspectors Course Course # 3402 | ||
Activity | Assignments | Estimated hours for the average student |
Academic Engagement | Reading online course instructional material at 140 words per minute. | 12.0 |
Taking quizzes | 5.9 | |
Taking the exam | 2.1 | |
Conducting a directed and independent inspection study performed according to the Standards of Practice, including the development of an inspection report | 4.0 | |
Submitting an inspection and writing assignment | 0.5 | |
Submitting a research and writing assignment | 0.5 | |
Total | 25.0 | |
Preparation | Studying and reviewing instructional material in preparation for taking quizzes and exam | 12.0 |
Reading the downloaded student course book including taking the quizzes with the book | 12.0 | |
Reading, research, and studying related to completing the research and writing assignment | 4.0 | |
Studying and preparing for inspection processes according to a Standards of Practice, including capturing and storing digital images with a camera or device, making observations, evaluating conditions, deducing, formulating opinions, communicating observations in written form, attaining competency in performing inspections and using an inspection checklist or software and other inspection tools in producing a report. | 10.0 | |
Total | 38.0 | |
Sub Total | 63.0 | |
Overall Total | 63.0 clock hours 6.3 CEU | |
And, in keeping with InterNACHI's commitment to Continuing
Education, this course is open and free to all members, and can be taken again and again, without limit.
Reminder to members: InterNACHI's Code of Ethics 1.10 requires that you comply with all government rules and licensing requirements of the jurisdiction where you conduct business. InterNACHI's courses and Standards generally exceed the Standards of Practice that you are required to abide by locally.
The course has been approved by:
- the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors;
- the Master Inspector Certification Board;
- the International Association of Certified Indoor Air Consultants;
- the Certified Commercial Property Inspectors Association; and
- many government agencies and licensing boards.
The course covers the following topics:
Introduction to Residential Structural Design
- Introduction
Structural Design Basics
- Conventional Residential Construction
- Industrialized Housing
- Alternative Materials and Methods
- Building Codes and Standards
- Role of the Design Professional
- Housing Structural Performance
- Common Performance Issues
- Housing Performance
- Hurricane Andrew
- Hurricane Opal
- Northridge Earthquake
- Summary
- Quiz
Structural Design Concepts
- Introduction
- What is Structural Design?
- Load Conditions and Structural Systems
- Vertical Loads
- Lateral Loads
- Structural Systems
- Load Path
- Vertical Load Path
- Lateral Load Path
- Summary
- Quiz
Structural Design Loads
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Structural Design of Foundations
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Structural Design of Wood Framing
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Structural Design of Roof Framing
- Roof Styles
- Roof Framing, Part 1
- Roof Framing, Part 2
- Roof Framing, Part 3
- Quiz
Structural Design of Lateral Resistance to Wind and Earthquake
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Structural Connection Design
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Upon completion of this course and passing of the final exam, the student can download and print their own Certificate of Completion which is auto-generated in their own name.
The student's (InterNACHI member's) information is recorded on
InterNACHI's servers for membership compliance verification, and
automatically logs completion into InterNACHI's online Continuing
Education log.
Non-members may view only this first page of the course.
Members will need their username and password. If you have forgotten your password, CLICK HERE (instant response) or email fastreply@internachi.org and request it (don't forget your name).
InterNACHI... #1 in inspection education.
Some features which make InterNACHI's courses superior to existing continuing education options:
- The course is free for all InterNACHI members.
- The course is written in pure XHTML code for quick loading. The course loads fine on old computers and loads fast, even with dial-up.
- The course is designed using a hierarchal menu coupled with a sequential page navigation. This provides the student with the option to easily repeat areas of weakness.
- The course permits the student to start, stop and restart any part of the course as often as desired.
- There are a variety of images within the course, including diagrams, illustrations and photos.
- The illustrations can be enlarged for clearer viewing by clicking on them.
- The text is integrated into InterNACHI's Inspector Glossary. Rolling over blue-colored terms provides their definition.
- The final exam uses multiple-choice questions that reference the images.
- The course's quizzes and final exam have numerous advantages over traditional exam systems:
- The course, quizzes and final exam incorporate built-in intelligence which identifies and strengthens each student's unique subject weaknesses.
- Not only is each question weighted with regard to score, but each answer is weighted, as well as the correctness of each answer being weighted.
- Answers to easy questions are weighted such that the student is penalized, in terms of score, for answering incorrectly, but rewarded modestly for answering correctly.
- Answers to difficult questions are weighted such that the student is rewarded, in terms of score, for answering correctly, but not penalized for answering incorrectly.
- Answers to questions regarding basic safety, or questions every inspector should know the answer to, are weighted such that the student is severely penalized, in terms of score, for answering incorrectly.
- Upon passing the final exam, the student can print out a Certificate of Completion which is auto-generated in their own name.
The student's (InterNACHI member's) information is recorded on
InterNACHI's servers for membership compliance verification, and
automatically logs completion into InterNACHI's online Continuing
Education log.
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