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Wednesday 17 April 2013

Civil Engineering Institutes in Delhi












The April issue of Civil Engineering (published by the American Society of Civil Engineers) has an important article Financing Out Future by Carlos Olea, CPA.  The article addresses our infrastructure crisis in the context of our financing constraints and opportunities. The closing of the article lays out a path for consideration:

"In short, by making use of all of the tools in our toolbox, we can transform the nation's infrastructure.  By means of tax revenue, private equity, alternative taxes, public involvement, and government leadership, we can amass the financial resources needed to satisfy the nation's infrastructure needs with just a few years."
Everything you read on our need for additional infrastructure investment fundamentally goes back to the same issue - - our infrastructure needs bold leadership and a compelling vision at the national level.  We also need leadership at the local level - - far more engineering counseling than engineering consulting.  The idea of counseling versus consulting is the importance of a Socratic dialogue with key stakeholders - - Engineers at the local and regional levels helping people see that the world is going to be different and it's time for them to adapt to it.
 Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings. Civil engineering is the oldest engineering discipline after military engineering, and it was defined to distinguish non-military engineering from military engineering. It is traditionally broken into several sub-disciplines including environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, geophysics, geodesy, control engineering, structural engineering, biomechanics, nanotechnology, transportation engineering, earth science, atmospheric sciences, forensic engineering, municipal or urban engineering, water resources engineering, materials engineering, coastal engineering, surveying, and construction engineering. Civil engineering takes place on all levels: in the public sector from municipal through to national governments, and in the private sector from individual homeowners through to international companies.

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