Defination of civil engineering

Answer Posted / prince kapoor

Civil engineering is the broadest of the engineering fields.
Civil engineering focuses on the infrastructure of the world
which include Water works, Sewers, Dams, Power Plants,
Transmission Towers/Lines, Railroads, Highways, Bridges,
Tunnels, Irrigation Canals, River Navigation, Shipping
Canals, Traffic Control, Mass Transit, Airport Runways,
Terminals, Industrial Plant Buildings, Skyscrapers, etc.
Among the important subdivisions of the field are
construction engineering, irrigation engineering,
transportation engineering, soils and foundation
engineering, geodetic engineering, hydraulic engineering,
and coastal and ocean engineering.

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