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: Civil engineers work in all of these groups. Of course the projects themselves can be segmented across many industries such as road, rail, buildings, oil and gas, mining, environmental, water, and marine. Civil engineers work in all of these industries. The project might be funded by a government, a private company, a not-for-profit, some hybrid, or it might not be funded at all. The thing to be built might be located in sparkling city or a tiny rural town, it might be on the coast or in the desert, it could be in a wealthy nation in or in a very poor country, and it could be close to your home or it might be many days travel away. 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.