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What is Civil Engineering?

Civil engineering is a professionalengineering discipline that deals with the design,


construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including
works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings.

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Civil engineering is arguably the oldest engineering discipline. It deals with the
built environment and can be dated to the first time someone placed a roof over
his or her head or laid a tree trunk across a river to make it easier to get across.
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design,
construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including
works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings.[1][2][3] Civil engineering is the secondoldest engineering discipline after military engineering,[4] and it is defined to distinguish nonmilitary engineering from military engineering.[5] It is traditionally broken into several subdisciplines including architectural engineering, environmental engineering,geotechnical
engineering, control engineering, structural engineering, earthquake
engineering, transportation engineering, forensic engineering, municipal or urban
engineering, water resources engineering, materials engineering, wastewater
engineering, offshore engineering, facade engineering, quantity surveying, coastal
engineering,[4] construction surveying, and construction engineering.[6]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

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