It doesn't matter so much if my question was answered or not. What matters more is what we learn from each other's responses. Anyway, my query was meant to initiate a discussion and share oppinions.
Waterguy, I think your analysis of the causes of our profile not being as high as it should be...
Mohammed,
In the country I work (UK), I can assure you that there is plenty of doubt about it. The situation seems to have begun improving lately with the important workload forecast in civil engineering and with the efforts of the Institute of Civil Engineers to restore the place of civil...
Waterguy,
I much appreciate the information you provided.
Here in UK the situation is much the same. In transportation for instance there is a lot going on and the government plans to invest £180 bilion in the next 10 years in improvement and maintenance of the road infrastructure.
Such surges...
Dear fellow engineers,
We all know how important is the role of the civil engineer in society by providing and maintaining its infrastructure.
However I believe most of you share my concern that the profile of civil engineering as a profession is rather low (world wide).
What do you think...
Waterguy,
Thanks for your reply.
Please could tell me how's the civil engineering market at the moment around where you work. I would appreciate if you specified the field as well if you think it's relevant(transportation, water, buildings, environment etc).
Ron, thank you for responding. I might have been slightly unspecific so I will try to clarify. I was not talking about classic "Civil Engineering" only. Many of companies such as: Black & Veach, Fluor Daniel, Montgomery Watson (American) or WS Atkins, Ove Arup, Mott Mc Donalds, WSP...
Hi all!
I was rather puzzled by the results of a recent internet search for consultants in Canada. The largest civil engineering consultant I found had 700 people and was founded 50 years ago.
It is enought to try the British site of ICE (http://www.nceplus.co.uk/consultants_file/az_home/) and...