aboutcivil.org Issue May 2013
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Career & Job Opportunities in Surveying

The basic principles of surveying have changed little over the ages, but the tools used by surveyors have evolved tremendously. Engineering, especially civil engineering depends heavily on surveyors. When ever there are roads, railways, reservoir, dams, retaining walls, bridges, or residential area to be built, surveyors ........ More

Importance of Concrete in Civil Technology

Concrete has been the most common building material for many years. It is expected to remain so in the coming decades. Concrete is widely used in domestic, rural, commercial, recreational and educational construction Communities around the world rely on concrete as a safe, strong and simple building material. Concrete Technology

Hydrology - Rivers and Stream Flows

Hydrology is the study Hydrologic cycle, its processes, water balance, precipitation types, estimation of precipitation, and analysis of precipitation data. Engineering Hydrology Helps in the following ways:

Applications of Engineering Hydrology

Engg. Hydrology | Precipitation | Evaporation

How to manage Water Resources

Irrigation is the controlled application of water to croplands. Its primary objective is to create an optimal soil moisture regime for maximizing crop production and quality while at the same time minimizing environmental degradation inherent in irrigation of agricultural lands.

Construction Planning & Management Notes

Involves determining what physical resources (people, equipment, materials etc) and what quantities of each should be used to perform project activities.

Techniques for the resource allocation management and resource levelling, resources may be limited or unlimited in nature from project to project... More

Civil Engg. Programming | Construction Scheduling Steps | Cost Control Techniques | Control Value Engineering | Construction Policies

Highway Engineering

Transportation engineering includes design of the transportation system and building of its lines and rolling stock. Determination of the traffic requirements of the route and setting up efficient and safe schedules, and the interaction of the system with the community and the environment. In our lectures you will learn about the following aspects of Transportation Engg.
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Primavera Project Planner

World's leader software in Project Management and a very efficient and handy application to use. Plan and Manage your projects with Primavera by learning from our FREE Video Tutorials

Drafting with AutoCAD

We offer Free and Paid training on the CAD industry giant AutoCAD. Tens of Books are available for free download and complete set of Video Tutorials to learn basic and advanced techinques in AutoCAD

Civil Engineering Jobs

Find place best suited to your requirements in Civil Engineering, Building Construction, Primavera, Project Planning and other jobs available here...

Engineering Images & Logos

Free Civil Engineering, Construction, Machines and other Images and Logos for any kind of use.

Site Selection for Structures

Collection of best Professional CSS, HTML, PHP, Flash and more web templates for companies, firms, businesses and individuall use. Screenshots are also available.

Reinforced Concrete

Paints are used to protect metals, timber, or plastered surfaces from the corrosive effects of weather, heat, moisture or gases etc and to improve their appearance.

Learn Simple Truss Analysis

A Truss is a structure comprising one or more triangular units constructed with straight members whose ends are connected at joints referred to as nodes. External forces and reactions to those forces are considered to act only