Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings. Civil engineering is considered a pioneer subject in the field of engineering. Civil Engineers in one form or another have been around ever since humans started building major public structures such as roads, bridges, tunnels and large public buildings. The discipline includes the planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation of infrastructures that surround us, and which underpin our society. Civil engineering branches into environmental engineering, Geo technical engineering, structural engineering, transportation engineering, municipal or urban engineering, water resource engineering, materials engineering, coastal engineering, surveying and construction engineering, among others.