Saturday 8 August 2009

What Civil Engineers Do ???















































Just spread around this short article to let people know more about our profession as civil engineer :)

Wednesday 3 June 2009

Civil Engineering....

The Petronas Twin Towers, designed by architect Cesar Pelli and Thornton-Tomasetti and Ranhill Bersekutu Sdn Bhd engineers, were the world's tallest buildings from 1998 to 2004.


Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings. Civil engineering is the oldest engineering discipline after military engineering, and it was defined to distinguish non-military engineering from military engineering.

It is traditionally broken into several sub-disciplines including environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, transportation engineering, municipal or urban engineering, water resources engineering, materials engineering, coastal engineering,[4] surveying, and construction engineering.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Civil engineers do contributes a lot in the development of public facilities and infrastructure for the better quality of human life. They involved in the design, supervision, monitoring and construction works of building, bridges, railways, highway and so on. We engineers, always be proud of our contribution to the nation building....