STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Enviable profession to be in

With public, private and foreign investment pouring into infrastructure projects, there's sustained demand for professionally qualified structural engineers

The rapid urbanisation of India requires massive investment in highways, roads, power, construction, and infrastructure industries. Inevitably, demand for professionally qualified structural engineers needed to build the required infrastructure is set to skyrocket.

Structural engineering is a specialised field within civil engineering. It's the science and art of constructing huge, capital-intensive projects capable of withstanding the forces of nature and discharging their functions with safety, durability and economy. The field encompasses the completion of residential, commercial, educational and recreational buildings, besides bridges, stadia, ports, dams and aqueducts - just about every type of 'structure'. A structural engineer manages technicians and workers on a project site and discharges the duties of planning and overseeing construction and/or maintenance of buildings, bridges and other structures, within budgeted periods and expenditure.