CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ITS
BRANCHES
Civil Engineering
• Professional engineering discipline
• Dealing with the design, construction, and
maintenance of the physical and naturally built
environment
• The oldest dicipline after military engineering
Civil Engineering Branches
• Environmental Engineering
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Structural Engineering
• Transportation Engineering
• Municipal Engineering
• Water Resource Engineering
• Material Engineering
• Coastal Engineering
• Construction Engineering and Surveying
Environmental Engineering
• Treatment of chemical, biological and thermal
waste
Focus on:
• Water purification
•Waste water treatment
•Air pollition
•Solid waste treatment
• Hazardeous waste mannagement
• Information on the environmental consequences
Geotechnical Engineering
• Concerning the rock and soil
• Using the knowledge from geology, material
science, mechanics and hydraulics
• Focus on economical foundations, retaining walls
and similar structure designs
Structural Engineering
• Dealing with structural design and structural
analysis of buildings ( bridges, towers, tunnels)
• Indetification of loads acting on structures
• Design considerations include strenght, stiffness
and stability of the structeres
Transportation Engineering
• Concentrating on moving people and goods
efficiently
• Designing, constructing and maintaining of
transportation infrastructure (streets, highways, rail
systems, airports, ports and mass transit)
Municipal Engineering
•Focusing on municipal infrastructure
• Designing, constructing and maintening of
pavements, water supply networks, sewers, street
lighting, municipal solid waste management, public
parks, bicycle paths
Water Resource Engineering
• Concerning collection and management of water
• Connected with hydrology, environmental
science, meteorology, geology, resource
management
• Related to the design of pipelines, water suply
network, drainage facilities and canals
Material Engineering
• Dealing with ceramics, such as concrete, mix
asphalt concrete, metals
• Focus on increasing strenght of aluminium, steel,
polymers and carbon fibres
Coastal Engineering
• Managing coastal areas
• Defence against flooding and erosion
Construction Engineering
• Concerning planning and execution of the designs
from transportation, site development, hydraulic,
environmental, structural and geotechnical
engineers
• Business like role: drafting and reviewing
contacts, evaluating logistical operations and prices
monitoring
Surveying
• A process when a surveyor measures certain
dimensions occurring on the Earth surface
• Land surveying used for a boundary establishing
and subdivision plans
• Construction surveying includes existing
condition survey, verifying the structure location
during construction and survey at the end
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_engineeri
ng,
23/6/2011