Part Two-Civil Engineering News
civil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment. Put simply, civil engineers build bridges, roads, canals, dams, tall buildings, and other large structures.
Civil engineering is all about creating, improving and protecting the environment in which we live. It provides the facilities for day-to-day life and for transport and industry to go about its work.
Like the Romans, Egyptians and Mayans who built great civilisations before us, our civilisation relies more than ever on teams of inventive people to design, build and maintain the sophisticated environment that surrounds us.
Civil engineering was originally defined simply to distinguish non-military engineering from military engineering but it actually represents so much more. Without civil engineers we wouldn’t have a constant supply of clean water, roads or trains to get to work in the morning, or sustainable energy to help us save our planet.
The Little Book of Civilisation looks at the amazing ways civil engineers overcome the challenges of creating and maintaining our infrastructure for us, and for future generations. Many of these challenges are met in a way that is sustainable, and all are met with style and innovation.
Engineering News
- MIT selected by U.S. Department of Transportation to lead New England Consortium on Transportation Safety & Livable Communities
- Engineers studying dangerous uptown intersection
- Sensor sensibility -- better protection for concrete coastal structures
- City engineers staying up on latest flood protection technology
- At competition, students model future cities around clean energy
- Peruvian villagers shown how to protect adobe buildings from earthquake collapse
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Project News
- VHB Employees Received Top Recognition from ENR-New York and ITE Metropolitan Section
- Engineering feat makes swapping out bridges on I-15 a snap
- Now 80, George Washington Bridge Will Undergo Repairs
- Efforts Under Way to Fix Connecticut Bridges
- Engineers to dig deep to beat sinkholes
- Crews wrap up earthwork for Red Gate Bridge
More Project News
IT News
- MSC Software Teams Up With UNED to Bring FEA Masters Program to Engineering Communities
- New software tool helps evaluate natural cooling options for buildings
- Eagle Point Updates AutoCAD Civil 3D Apps
- Blue Marble Announces GeoTranslate 5.1 Upgrade
- SolidCAD and CAD MicroSolutions, Inc. Merge
- Autodesk 2012 AEC Software Portfolio Expands Value of Building Information Modeling
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Industry News
- VHB Employees Received Top Recognition from ENR-New York and ITE Metropolitan Section
- Shaping The Future of Urban Transportation
- Civil Engineering Salaries Drop Slightly in 2011
- Construction Sector In 2011: A Year That Made Civil Engineers Proud
- San Francisco races to build bridge before California earthquake
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Research News
- New Book Illustrates the Analytical Method in Structural Analysis
- The Path Less Traveled: Research Is Driving Solutions to Improve Unpaved Roads
- ASCE to Sponsor Panama Canal 2012 Congress
- New Architecture and Civil Engineering Resources Highlighted at Sciencia.org
- Civil Engineers support ODA Learning Legacy
- �Quake-resistant buildings must to avoid human losses�
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University News
- Editorial: Take civil engineers' advice seriously
- NSF grant to Wayne State aims to develop new ways to calculate odds of structural failure
- Chinese agreement promotes joint engineering research
- UH College of Engineering, China university will collaborate
- Purdue Receives Transportation Funding
- SIUE engineering professor earns accolades
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