Civil Engineering comprises the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and natural built environments. As a Civil Engineer you can either work for Client bodies like government, where you will be responsible for the establishing of the Civil Engineering needs of the body, or you can work with Civil Consultants where you will design these needs of these Clients and even supervise the Construction thereof, or you could work for a Contractor where you will be responsible for the Construction of the Client's needs.

There are basically 12 branches in Civil Engineering. For more details Go to link

You could be part of designing or building of roads, water infrastructure, housing developments, big structures, dams etc. Civil Engineers create a better environment around us.