Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering is one of the oldest branches of Engineering because it deals with the day to day necessities of life and provides for physical infrastructure of our modern society. Civil Engineers are concerned with all types of structures including dams, bridges, pipelines, roads, towers and buildings, transport systems, the design and management of our gas and water supply, sewerage systems, harbours, airports and railways.
Functions
To design, planning, managing and supervise the construction of roads, pavements, hill roads , road drainage system, pipelines, towers and buildings, dams, power stations for electricity, embankments, construction of canals, head works, river training works, cross drainage works, regulatory and other Civil Engineering structures which should be safe, economical and environmentally-sound.
- Includes the jobs of detailed surveying, plotting of survey data, preparation of survey maps .
- To supervise operations involving proportioning, mixing, transporting, placing, compacting, finishing and curing of concrete.
- Construction of water supply and providing portable water.
- Collection and disposal of waste solids and liquids , sewage treatment works