BACHOLOR DEGREE Lecture 1: Civil Engineering and its History
17 Jul 2022
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Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of buildings, roads, bridges, tunnels, canals, dams, airports, water supply, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, harbour, and railways. Civil engineering is a broad profession including several specialized sub disciplines. It is considered as the second oldest engineering discipline after military engineering. So somehow, we could say that civil engineering is the key to today"s civilization and modern lifestyle. History of civil engineering [ exam oriented notes] Pyramids in egypt (circa 2700-2500 bc) might be considered the first instances of large structure constructions. Ancient historic civil engineering constructions include the qanat water management system (the oldest older than 3000 years and longer than 71 km,) the great wall of china by general meng t"ien (c. 220. Bc) julius caesar"s bridge over the rhine river built in 55 bc, taj mahal (agra), red fort (delhi), golden temple (amritsar), hawa mahal ( jaipur),
