How many jobs in the world affect the way our surrounding environment looks or works? One such job is civil engineering. A civil engineer is a person who engineers our civilization by building and constructing almost all the infrastructure that we seldom notice around us and appreciate. From the smallest to the largest of buildings they play an important role in bringing these amenities our way. Everything around us works perfectly fine and until then we take them for granted whereas it is only when parts of it fail or are taken away we realize its value. You will be well aware of the fact that the Greeks were the pioneers of construction. Civil Engineering was born as early between 4000 and 2000 BC. "πολιτικος μηχανικος", the Greek word which stands for Civil Engineer was the first representation.It is only with the sheer creativity and technical skills of the πολιτικος μηχανικος, in our society, that we are able to live in a well planned, designed and constructed surrounding. They are responsible for the roads and railways, airports and harbors, hospitals, sports stadiums, schools, bridges and highway systems just to name a few.

Πολιτικος μηχανικος play a major role in urban redevelopment and community planning. They have a huge hand in solving infrastructural problems and subsequently meet problems of pollution, traffic congestion, drinking water and energy needs. They are in high demand after natural disasters like earthquake and drought and at times of war to help renovate the city or town and maintain normal conditions. They analyze extensive amount of information to co-ordinate the projects in hand. They need technical and people skills to co-ordinate with different authorities related to the project.

With the advent of the digital and information technology there are high expectations from civil engineers with respect to their skill sets. Unlike in the olden times, they need to be experts in some other related fields as well in order to be up-to-date with the developing technologies. Other than the regular civil engineering skills like design, construction, research, planning, teaching or management they need to possess other important and essential skills in communication, computers and foreign languages since the job undertakes a lot of foreign projects. In recent times, they see a changing trend in the way they work; they need more specialization and expertise, need to be a good team player, should be exposed to globalization, new materials and computer applications. They must additionally possess environmental knowledge or specialize in the same because there is a huge demand for them for the rising concerns of the environmental effects of the various infrastructures that are built.

Every project is a challenge and the πολιτικος μηχανικος finds self-expression and achievement at the end of it all. They are as much in demand in the developing countries as in the developed nations. To help out πολιτικος μηχανικος we have the architects who design and fabricate these various infrastructures. An architect plays a crucial role in this since their designs define public safety and anything that goes wrong affects largely the users of the infrastructure. So it is clear that when things go hand in hand with the designs of the architect and the expertise of the civil engineers you end up with constructing or renovating the perfect building or other constructions that helps sustain the quality of life of the common man.