Definition

• civil engineering

  • deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment
  • including works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewerage systems pipelines, and railways
• Civil Engineering

  • The term was derived from the need of a separation between military and non-military engineering
  • While these two disciplines of engineering are responsible for building the same types of projects, their environments differ
• Military engineering

  • The art and practice of designing and building military works and of building and maintaining lines of military transport and communications.
• Non-military engineering

  • Construction and maintenance of civil works projects that serve the domestic public