Sketching is an amazing thing. It's a great way of communicating an idea to someone, rapidly discovering solutions and testing a design for buildability. It's an underrated skill in the engineering toolbox, and one that is sadly finding itself...
We've all been there; it's practically a rite of passage for a growing engineer- that arch needs inspecting, that detail needs checking, the designer has (as usual) asked you to do something impossible...
"What do Civil Engineers actually do?". Bewilderingly this isn't something I've actually written about, until now... I could toe the party line; but frankly it’s amazing how so many dynamic words can say so little. Instead I've...