Introduction

An introduction from the Director General of the Institution of Civil Engineers

Welcome to this new edition of the Inside Careers Guide to Civil Engineering. The guide provides an insight to one of the few professions where you really have the chance to make a lasting contribution to your local community, region and even the world.

Civil engineering is an interesting and rewarding career. It offers the chance to work on projects all over the world by using expertise and skills to help people and improve society. You can make a real difference to the world and the individual communities that live in it. Civil engineers’ skills are needed to create, improve, protect and maintain the environment in which we live. Without civil engineers, today’s society could not function.

One of the reasons that many young engineers give for choosing civil engineering as a career is variety. Civil engineers can either be in the office, working on designs at a computer or ensuring the client is kept up to date, or on site, leading teams and solving problems.

Throughout this guide you’ll find information on how to become a professionally qualified civil engineer and also details of how continuing professional development is necessary to further your career.

Whatever route you take to professional qualification, you will be supported along the way wherever you are based and at each stage of your career. The Institution welcomes engineers, technicians and others who develop the built environment. They can become members at any stage of their career, as a student or as a senior engineer.

I hope you’ll find this guide helps you to take your interest further in a career in civil engineering. The Institution of Civil Engineers, a global organisation, looks forward to welcoming many of you into the professional community of civil engineers.

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