Tiefbau D. Rummel

Civil engineering is the branch of civil engineering that deals with the planning and construction of buildings is concerned that at or below the earth's surface are. The term "civil engineering" serves in particular to distinguish it from the field of building construction . Overlaps with civil engineering arise, for example, in the construction of bridges , which as part of traffic routes are sometimes counted as civil engineering although they are above the surface of the earth. Civil engineering comprises large parts of the structural infrastructure . This includes the construction of roads , bridges, railways, galleries and tunnels, earthworks , waterworks , mining and foundations as well as the construction of supply and disposal networks such as waterways , dams and sewer systems .