CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.0            General Introduction

Engineering has been an aspect of life since the begging of human existence. Civil engineering becomes the oldest practice of engineering after military engineering and has commences between 4000Bc and 2000Bc in ancient Egypt in which during this time transportation became increasingly important leading to the development of of wheel and salting.

         Civil engineering is a professional engineering course which deals with the design, construction and maintenance of physical and naturally bruit environment broken into sub-discipline which is based on particular works which include.

(i)Structural engineering

(ii) Geotechnical engineering

(iii) Environmental engineering

(iv)Building and survey engineering

All this is the sub-discipline which is based on particular works, other sub-discipline are material engineering. Civil engineering construction takes place basically on soil in which associated structures which is basically for the basic uses are such as surface CAD {computer Aided drawing/drifting} is defined as the use of computer technology for design of documentation. It describes the process of drafting with a computer for the purpose of design documentation and manufacturing process.

        AUTOCAD: – This is software crated for civil engineering design and documentations {Design of structures}.