Earn 5.5 ISA CEU's and deepen your understanding of tree structure, safety evaluation, and advanced inspection techniques, with practical insights you can apply straight back on site.
Agenda 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Lunch Included)
- 9:00 AM (Indoor Session) Why established tree-safety methods (VTA,….) fail and mislead.
- 10:30 AM BREAK
- 10:45 AM (Indoor Session) Calculating wind-loads and load-bearing-capacity? Forget it!
- 11:15 AM (Indoor Session) From wood anatomy to tree-biomechanics
- 11:45 AM (Indoor Session) Windloads, Dynamics, Load-Reduction and Crown-Cabling
- 12:15 PM LUNCH
- 1:15 PM (Indoor Session) From Shape to load carrying capacity
- 1:45 PM (Outdoor Session) Optional: Practical aspects
- 2:15 PM (Outdoor Session) Inspection techniques: drilling, sounding, pulling/pushing
- 2:45 PM BREAK
- 3:00 PM (Indoor Session) Basics and Application of Allometric Self-Referencing
- 3:30 PM (Indoor Session) Case studies & discussion
