Journal Title：Civil Engineering

Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide and is a vital discipline for many aspects modern life, underlying housing, transport, and our major areas and buildings related to work, study, and leisure. In this Very Short Introduction, David Muir Wood demonstrates the nature and importance of civil engineering not only in the history of civilization and urbanization, but its range of facets today, and its challenges for the future. Beginning with the challenge of creating a settlement on a deserted island, which sets out the problems that civil engineers need to solve, he looks at the social and environmental considerations as well as the science, technology, and craft of building bridges, tunnels, houses, and areas of recreation. He highlights the lives of some major civil engineers, including Brunel and Bazalgette, considers the challenges of managing water and energy, and looks at our increasing sensitivity to building and the environment.

土木工程产生了全世界所有人类住区的结构，是现代生活、底层住房、交通以及我们与工作、学习和休闲相关的主要领域和建筑物的许多方面的重要学科。在这篇非常简短的介绍中，David Muir Wood 展示了土木工程的性质和重要性，不仅在文明和城市化的历史中，而且在它今天的各个方面，以及它对未来的挑战中。从在荒岛上建立定居点的挑战开始，提出土木工程师需要解决的问题，他着眼于社会和环境因素以及建造桥梁、隧道、房屋的科学、技术和工艺, 和休闲区。他强调了一些主要土木工程师的生活，包括布鲁内尔和巴扎尔盖特。