Civil Engineering: A Very Short Introduction

• Highlights the impact civil engineering has on all parts of life - buildings related to work, study, and leisure
• A broad introduction to the discipline of civil engineering
• Examines the nature and importance of civil engineering in the history of civilization and urbanization
• Explores its challenges for the future - managing water and energy and our sensitivity to buildings and the environment
• Part of the best-selling Very Short Introductions series - over five million copies sold worldwide

Readership: An ideal introduction to civil engineering for the general reader and students of engineering, science, and technology.

David Muir Wood, Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol

David Muir Wood is Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol and Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Dundee. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

1: Civil engineering
2: Materials of civil engineering
3: Water and waste
4: 'Directing the great sources of power in nature'
5: Concept - technology - realisation
6: Robustness
7: The future
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