Civil Engineering

What is Civil Engineering? Civil engineering is a discipline that concerns the designing, building and maintaining of man-made products and constructions, including roads, bridges, canals, dams, buildings, and more. Established as the second major engineering branch after military engineering, the name is designed to distinguish it as non-armory. Most civil engineering is funded by the central government. Why Study Civil Engineering? As a civil engineer you will play an instrumental role in planning, constructing and maintaining the physical environment, including buildings, transport systems and water collection and treatment. Civil Engineering is one of the most diverse professions around. Graduates go on to become involved in everything from planning and designing transport systems to enhancing the energy efficiency of buildings. Did you spend your entire childhood playing with Lego or Meccano? (Or indeed your adult life?) Then civil engineering should be considered if you like building new, and complex, things. If you did a problem solving series of subjects at A-level - like Maths and Physics - and really enjoyed the applied aspects, then this could be the perfect conglomoration of all your likes. Being a practical subject, there is a lot of project work. You have the enjoyment of planning, preparing, and emba