What are the different types of civil engineering?
There are lots of different areas that you can go into as a civil engineer. Below are few areas you can specialise within the profession. • Coastal –Protect our beaches and costal areas against flooding and erosion • Earthquake – Test structures to make sure that they can withstand earthquakes and are designed well to stop them collapsing • Environmental – Finding new ways to protect our environment and work on wind farms, water purification, waste water treatment and solid waste treatment, air pollution, and hazardous waste management • Structural –Design and build buildings, bridges, towers, flyovers, tunnels, as well as off shore structures like oil and gas fields in the sea • Transport – Ensure people and products move around the country quickly and safely. This could mean working on roads, canals, highways, rail systems, airports, and ports • Urban – Working in cities. Mainly to design, construct, and maintain the roads, sidewalks, water supply networks, sewers, street lighting, m
