Civil Engineering Inspirational Book ?

Read about Brunel. There are lots of books about him. IT is really encouraging and inspiring to read about this great engineer. Search for Brunnel or Isambard Kingdom Brunel in Amazon.com and you will find something that match your search.

Saurabh,

Read about Brunel but don’t follow his example. He was a great engineer of his time but the worst example of how manage a project in todays world you could get.

Hello,

You can read my cv posted in PP. It will be part of a book that will be publish someday.

You can also read Andrew post, so far the best in PP relating to Contracts, Claims & Claim assessment. All his post combined will be worth a million inspirational books

There is another guy, Oscar Wilde.

But be careful with the Oscar here in PP. He may not be the Wilde.

You can also ask PP number 1 about his his life, how he come up with this idea, eventually the bio of PP number 1 will be worth a thousand books.

PP number 1 is a genius that why we are enjoying Planning planet.

Cheers,

Charlie

Hey Charleston

I just read your CV, your profile at least.

I notice you have given yourself two stars for Railway Construction. I don’t know if you are being modest but shouldn’t rail users of UAE be a bit worried as that is the industry you are in?

David

Thats the trouble with you Clive, such an agent provocateur...

I think you will find Charlie is a six start general for Roadways and Infrastructure but only two stars for Railway Construction.

:-)

Hi Clive,

All those stars confused me as well, but in addition to the engineers you listed, what about Richard Trevithick or Thomas Newcomen?

Chris Oggham

Clive

I think he’s Bazalgette (or thereabouts) - without whom London wouldn’t exist as now.

What about Tony Hunt - best recent structural engineer

And the Stephenson’s father and son

Hi Clive,

With regard to Trevithick and Newcomen they were indeed mechanical engineers, I really must learn to pay attention. Although maybe we could squeeze Trevithick in? One of the things he designed was a monument in cast iron which was 1000 feet high. As I recall, it was an enormous column but I can’t remember what it was for.

Chris Oggham

Sorry Clive,

didn’t see the Stephenson name. You are quite right, George was an illiterate, and wasn’t allowed to become a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, so he went off and formed the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, so they say.
Until that time there was no distinction between them, there were only Military engineers and Civil engineers.
IMHO all the great Victorian and Georgian mechanical engineers deserve to be on the list.

To give it a bit of an international flavour, what about

Eiffel
Freyssinet
Terzaghi
Goethals
deLesseps
Hennebecke
TY Lin