Civil engineering is everywhere. Starting from the place you live to the place you go. It’s on every road. It is a combination of both imagination and technical expertise in order to design the built environments. They prove their abilities in a multitude of ways and in a variety of places such as the highway system, GPS (global positioning system), the digital point cloud, construction, and many more. They play a crucial role in society, seeking to improve the already existing technologies while building up both physical and digital infrastructure.

Civil engineers built sustainable roads that bring people together. They play significant roles in the highway systems being the most important pieces of transportation infrastructure. If we look closely, the construction of any highway begins with the planning phase before laying the foundation. Engineers invest a lot of time determining the best route for traffic to flow through the cities and across the regions as they want roads, especially highways, to last long. Because of their hard work, people feel safe traveling and transporting vital products and resources. According to ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers), U.S highways and roads influence 72% of the country’s goods, which is worth 17 trillion dollars.

By using advanced technology and software, a major scale of civil engineers is developing and designing roads and highways. The construction industry has many reasons to collaborate with IoT technology. Its GPS-based scanning tools assist to map out the land carefully where a highway will be built. GPS is used by civil engineers to measure and determine quantities for projects and also to verify that the project was built correctly. IoT provides civil engineers with a massive amount of data including soil properties, draining capabilities, future development, potential environmental effects, and even a complex digital point cloud. A point cloud is created by a 3D scanning technology. It’s kind of a raw 3D scan that later gets filtered and processed. The digital point cloud for road construction that civil engineers use perfectly models the terrain. Once they gather the data, the construction process starts.

IoT, like singular software platforms or multi-software platforms, is fabricated to fit the general and basic needs in terms of construction. A civil engineer should be careful while using the software as they need to match the projects with the abilities and outcomes of the designed software. Civil engineering encompasses a lot, from physical technology to digital technology.