What is Civil Engineering?

What is Civil Engineering?

Civil Engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the main aspects are the Design, Construction, and Maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams and buildings, and other facilities that are used in our daily life.

Civil Engineering is an aspect of life since the beginnings of human existence the earliest practices of civil engineering may have commenced between 4000 and 2000 BC in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia that is ancient Iraq when humans started to abandon a nomadic existence thus causing a need for the construction for shelter during this time transportation became increasingly important leading to the development of the will and sailing.

Civil engineering takes place in the public sector from municipal through to national governments and in the private sector from individual homeowners, through to international companies. Civil Engineering is progressing at a fast pace as our other technologies.

The first Self-proclaimed Civil Engineer was John Smeaton who constructed the Eddystone lighthouse.

Civil engineering has a significant role in the life of every human being though may not truly sense its importance in our daily routine the function of civil engineering commences with the start of the day when we take a shower since the water is delivered through a water supply system including a well-designed network of pipes water treatment plant and other numerous associated services.

 The network of roads on which we drive while proceeding to school or work the huge structural bridges we come across and the tall buildings where we work all have been designed and constructed by Civil Engineers.