Title: What does a civil engineer do? - Quora
Headings: What does a civil engineer do?
What does a civil engineer do?
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Civil engineers typically do the following:
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Content: You'll find civil engineers in all of these places. So, take any combination of life cycle phase, organisation, industry, proponent type, project location and you might be doing any or all of the following: - Drafting legal contracts
- Building a concrete form
- Writing a scope of work
- Applying for regulator approval
- Measuring a piece of steel
- Designing something years before it’s built
- Designing something minutes before it’s built
- Supervising teams of workers and machinery
- Checking the quality of something being built or designed
- Resolving a contract dispute
- Visiting a construction site
- Tightening a bolt
- Writing a tender submission
- Evaluating a tender submission
- Being taught trade skills
- Managing a contract variation
- Creating a project schedule
- Monitoring costs
- Buying equipment and materials
- Forecasting financials
- Explaining a concept
- Vibrating concrete
The stereotypical civil engineer is the one working on the design part of a public works project, perhaps a building. A very small group of civil engineers actually do this. As a civil engineer, you can have a fantastic and varied career. You can live and work in almost any place on earth and your skills are immediately valuable. You get to be outside or you can work in an office if you want. You can work with a team of people or you can work alone. You can work on highly technical problems or very relational people problems. You can do a lot of stuff.