What is the role of a civil engineer in construction of dams?
Assuming a large scale project and the dam has already been designed and a bid accepted, there will probably be more than one civil engineer on the project working in different roles such as: Project Manager and Chief Inspector for the Owner, Project Manager for the Contractor, Surveyors Engineer, Materials Engineer, Field Engineers and the most popular, the Agency or Jurisdiction’s Engineer. For the design, there will be surveyors, hydrologists, civil, structural and geotechnicals involved, perhaps environmental, irrigation and others. All these positions are often occupied by “a civil engineer” with experience in this particular area of civil. It is a broad field.
