Public works projects

 Public works projects   or civil engineers projects

There are lots of different types of projects in public works, good engineer should concentrate in one or two of them, but he will needs a general knowledge about the others as well

 Types of projects in public works

The table below shows us an example of variety in Public works projects:

Infrastructure	Building	Public Construction
Highways	Schools	Bridges
Roads	Hospital	Dam
Airport	Residential	Tunnels
pipelines	Stadium	Seaport
railways	framework

What a public works engineer should know? Or what do civil engineers do

There is variety of engineer experience types, but all of them should have the ability to solve technical problems, the table below:

structural engineering	analysis and design of structures that support or resist loads
hydraulic engineering	concerned with the flow and conveyance of fluids
geotechnical engineering	engineering behavior of earth materials
transportation engineering	operation and management of facilities for any mode of transportation in order to provide for the safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods (transport

Position for a public works engineer (civil engineers)

PLAN

 Work with the community

 Identify needs and opportunities

 Develop levels of service

 Plan and strategies using engineering and economic principles

DESIGN

Develop and determine detail of projects

Undertake engineering computation

Analyse

Apply design concepts

Prepare specifications and estimates

CONSTRUCT

Organize and supervise construction of community infrastructure

 Work with people

 Manage contracts

 Manage the whole project

OPERATE

Coordinate and manage the day to day and long term

 Maintain local community infrastructure

MANAGE

Aspire and achieve the highest levels of corporate management

 Manage people

 Program and control finances

 Manage community relations