Civil Engineering is the planning, design, and building of roads, bridges, harbors and public buildings, and historic monuments that we see around the world. Civil Engineering is recorded to be the oldest type of engineering, one could argue that Civil Engineering includes even the building of a simple shelter or the construction of a rudimentary bridge across a stream using a tree trunk. From the water we drink to the pavement we drive on to the building we reside in, Civil Engineering surrounds us all. Civil Engineering makes trade, travel, day-to-day human activities, healthcare, education, industry, and more possible.

Civil engineering is important as it makes the world a more habitable place, providing us with buildings, bridges, roads, hospitals, airports, tunnels, stadiums, homes, and more. Civil engineers design, build and maintain architectural infrastructures that we have all around us. We may have heard of certain famous civil engineering projects like the famous Gateway Arch in St. Louis. Every major architectural structure had a Civil Engineer, for example, the creator of the Gateway Arch, Eero Saarinen, was a Civil Engineer. Similarly, every famous bridge and structure around us was born in the mind of a professional Civil Engineer. Civil Engineering is something we humans can not live without just like we are not able to live without oxygen, Civil Engineering has helped shaped the world and has given us humans the ability to be productive and space to see creativity from a different perspective.

Evolution of CE Architecture Designs

The first form of architecture has largely been lost, due to being crafted from mud and thatch, stone henge, megaliths, and pyramids were worked using stones. Architecture designs revolved heavily around the world, and it has been revolving and there has been tons of progress and changes in architectural designs from the Greek trends to the world's tallest building (Burj Khalifa) which has been astonishing for almost two decades now. These days architecture is largely designed by professionals using computers to ensure accuracy and uses steel with other sustainable materials in place of stone from the Greek era trend. While these modern structures are built to stand the test of time.

Challenges to Civil Engineering

Here are some aspects of human society that would be impossible without Civil Engineering; Construction, Environment preservation, Water resources management, Transportation networks, Coastal protection, and Surveying. Without Civil Engineering, it will be hard to imagine how the world we live in would look like, but we can be certain that all these marvelous structures that fill our landscape would be absent. Civil Engineering will continue to play a role in human civilization far into the future.

Civil engineering has played a big role in the civilization of the city of St. Louis from the construction of the Union Station to the highways around St. Louis that went across the country, and it will continue to help reshape the city in our modern world.

St. Louis, Mo is known for its Gateway Arch, the tallest monument constructed in the United States. It is also known for its reflection of French colonial, German, early America, European influenced, French second empire, Victorian, and modern architectural styles, and designs. St. Louis also boasts seven interstate highways connecting the country and other Midwest states and cities. St. Louis is popular for its historical and significant landmarks like the Gateway Arch, Union Station, Busch Stadium, Forest Park, Ead's Bridge, Arcade Building, and a lots more. St. Louis renewal efforts and public housing development programs could not stem the tide of population loss. Between 1951-1999 four new interstate highways were built which helped the city grow and connected the city to the suburbs. St. Louis has been a city known for its historic constructions and modern architectural designs. The 1965 construction of the gateway arch and the 1966 construction of Busch Memorial Stadium (home of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team) helped St. Louis city with new vitality and a new life that sees the development of the St. Louis downtown area and the neighboring counties around St. Louis. A thirty-year downtown building boom was followed by projects like the rehab in 1985 and the St. Louis center in 1986.

St. Louis has been home to many Americans with potential and amazing talents. St. Louis city growth has been intriguing and amazing for a city with a lot of historic recognition across the nation, St. Louis downtown and neighborhood revitalization efforts continued in the city with the construction of the Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis University hospitals.