ABS CIVIL ENGINEERING
Built to last

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.

The built environment encompasses much of what defines modern civilization. Buildings and bridges are often the first constructions that come to mind, as they are the most conspicuous creations of structural engineering, one of civil engineering’s major sub-disciplines. Roads, railroads, subway systems, and airports are designed by transportation engineers, another category of civil engineering. And then there are the less visible creations of civil engineers. Every time you open a water tap, you expect water to come out, without thinking that civil engineers made it possible.

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