THE BME FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING 

It is the largest civil engineering program in Hungary and the only one offering the full spectrum of specializations.

WHAT DOES A CIVIL ENGINEER DO?

Civil engineers are often confused with architects. While architects focus on designing buildings, civil engineers are responsible for realizing the built infrastructure and specialized structures essential to our daily lives. 

They were formerly known as "civilization engineers", 

as they create engineering facilities that ensure a civilized, safe, and environmentally friendly way of life.

In our homes, we take for granted the availability of safe drinking water, as well as the collection and treated discharge of wastewater back into natural water bodies. Civil engineers are responsible for  

designing the necessary utility networks and managing their construction and operation.

Do you enjoy spending your holidays by the water? Our lakes and rivers offer excellent opportunities for recreation. At the same time, however, climate change is leading to increasingly frequent extreme weather events, resulting in periods of drought or, conversely, floods. 

Water engineers are responsible for

managing the country’s surface and groundwater resources, as well as for the design and construction of the associated engineering infrastructure

Flood protection levees safeguard our homes, irrigation canals enable efficient agricultural cultivation, and hydroelectric power plants allow us to generate electricity in an environmentally friendly manner—or even utilize them for energy storage.

It is a natural desire of 21st-century people to travel freely around the world. Thousands of civil engineers are working to create the necessary transport infrastructure—roads, railways, and bridges. Self-driving cars? Electromobility? High-speed railway network? New technologies require new or modernized infrastructure.

Civil engineers specializing in transport infrastructure

will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of transportation,

enabling us to reach our destinations faster, more comfortably, and with an ever-decreasing environmental impact!

Perhaps it is not widely known that

iconic bridges, gigantic viaducts, skyscrapers, and even tunnels all originate from civil engineering design studios,

and their maintenance—and indeed their renovation—requires qualified engineers. These structures must be realized cost-effectively while adhering to the laws of physics, a process aided by

state-of-the-art computer modeling

tools. Consequently, structural engineers are devising increasingly efficient design and sizing procedures, while

developing modern, eco-friendly construction materials and methods 

We are building structures that are increasingly slender yet sufficiently robust, enabling the creation of edifices that are not only more aesthetically pleasing but also require fewer natural resources.

Civil engineers—specifically land surveyors and geoinformatics specialists—are the ones who oversee the entire lifecycle of facilities.

They create maps,

that serve as the foundation for designs. Through precise geodetic measurements, they guide and monitor the construction process, ensuring that structures are built in accordance with the planned geometry.

They survey the environment using modern 3D technologies and also employ augmented and virtual reality tools

to generate and visualize digital twins of our facilities.