Integrating Sustainability into Modern Civil Engineering Projects

This essay provides an overview of sustainable development within the field of civil engineering, highlighting the increased emphasis on environmentally conscious practices in modern construction. It discusses how civil engineers are now trained to minimize the ecological impact of their projects, referencing examples from Melbourne, Victoria, and NSW, Australia, where recent buildings demonstrate ecological sustainability. The essay also touches on the innovative approaches being developed to ensure cost-effective and economically feasible solutions that balance human development with environmental preservation, noting the role of modern educational institutions in fostering awareness and responsibility in this area. The essay concludes by pointing out the importance of sustainable development in civil engineering.

Civil Engineering
NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Introduction
It has been observed in the recent developments towards the development of civic amenities and
civil engineering that a lot of emphasis is being laid on the aspects of sustainable development
(Mittal and Sethi, 2018, pp. 245-263). The recent trend does impose a lot of commitments of
concern for the civil engineers towards the domain of sustainable development.
The civil engineers are found to be extremely cautious nowadays regarding the different types of
land filling and land mapping activities (Sorvig and Thompson, 2018, pp. 278-390). However, it
causes minimum harm for the nature in respect to the construction activities.
It had been observed previously that a large number of previously build constructions had lethal
impacts on the nature as well as the ecology of the concerned regions (Sutherland et al., 2016,
pp.44-53). Modern day engineers are taught the various impacts of engineering activities on the
nature and they are specially trained to keep the prospects of construction in mind before taking
up any type of construction projects and also during its implementation in the concerned activity
(Bagiati and Evangelou, 2018, pp. 83-111).
A large number of construction that has been made in the different sites of Melbourne, Victoria
and other regions of NSW, Australia does show a perfect example for such a cause (Morán‐
Ordóñez et al., 2017, pp.371-384). Most of the recent buildings that has been constructed has
found to be ecologically sustainable to the concerned environment (Wong and Zhou, 2015,
pp.156-165). The impact of the development of such type of the buildings has been found to be
extremely minimum in respect to the construction of such type of the buildings neatly 10 years
ago in the same domain. The implications of the civil engineers have been found to be quite
innovative in the development of cost effective and economically feasible units for the successful
compatibility of the human evolution and sustainability of the nature (Larcher and Tarascon,
2015, p.19). The modern day institutes are also responsible for developing a high level of
awareness in this concerned domain.

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