Fields of application

Its scope is broad. They would, for example, transport infrastructure:

• Airports

• Highways

• Roads

• Railways

• Ports

• Bridges

• urban transport networks

Hydraulic works:

• Sewer

• Waterwheels

• Channels to transport drinking water or irrigation

• navigation Channels

• potable water piping

• Hydroelectric

• Depuradoras

• Dams

• Locks

• Docks.

• Dams

The structures that make up the earlier works:

• Embankments

• Joints

• Works containment field

• Tunnels

• Shoes

• Pillars

• Beams

• Boards of bridges

In general, civil engineering work involves a lot of people (sometimes hundreds or even thousands) over periods ranging from a few weeks or months to several years.

Due to the high cost of the works that are undertaken (think of the cost of a road or a railway line) much of the work performed are for the state or for large companies seeking the exploitation of an infrastructure long term. However, their techniques are also applied to such works to the above but smaller scale, as could be:

• Containment of difficult terrain in the excavation for the foundation of a building.

• The implementation of the structure of a building.

• The design and implementation of systems for water distribution and sewage from a small population (including the stations of potable water (ETAP), equipment pumping stations sewage treatment plant (WWTP), etc..

• The design and development of the streets of a small town

Moreover, they are also responsible for a civil engineer:

• Planning, design and control of urban transport systems, including the design of heat exchangers and the creation of new lines or modifying existing ones.

• Adoption of new transportation systems do not exist at that time, as lines underground or light rail (more commonly known as tram).

• The development and studies related to transport and logistics jobs.

• The preparation of studies, plans and development projects, land and environmental management.

• Planning, implementation and management of treatment plants or waste incineration and landfills.

• Work auxiliary engineering (quality control, laboratory testing, monitoring of health and safety issues).

• Maintenance of all previous

Thus, a civil engineer is not limited to large infrastructure works, very rare due to its high cost.