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Civil engineers design the future

 Architects and civil engineers plan and construct, they often design and change the world in a positive way, but sometimes unfortunately also in a negative way. There is hardly any other profession that interferes that extensively in all areas of life and technology and covers them than the profession of architects and civil engineers.

They plan and design residential buildings, kindergartens, schools, universities, administration and office buildings, theaters, concert halls, hospitals, prisons, railroad stations, airports, hotels, factories and production facilities, infrastructure like networks of water, waste water, power, gas, oil, roads, railroads and waterways as well as harbors, runways and energy systems like nuclear, hydro and coal-fired power stations, wind and solar power plants. 

To study civil engineering and architecture is at least as interesting and versatile as the profession itself. However, getting the...

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