The necessity of more structures warrants the demand of civil engineers who can guarantee standard services. Filipino civil engineers are known to be globally competitive. They exert full effort when doing projects to ensure their client’s contentment upon their performances. With this, vast number of Filipino civil engineers has achieved excellence advancing their trademark of their field of work nationwide and worldwide.
The success of engineers start at their training grounds. Civil engineers must practice their profession through quality education that they can get from universities that render the Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering Program. A lot of standard universities are available here in the Philippines such as the University of the Philippines (UP), De Las Salle University Manila (DLSU), Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), University of Sto. Tomas (UST), and the University of Southeastern Philippines (USeP). These universities are certified by reliable accrediting associations such as the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges, and Universities (PAASCU). Also, they produce excellent graduates that are among the CE Licensure Exam passers with high-passing rate.
Building Infrastructure Breakthrough: Efficiency to the Economic Growth of the Philippines
“Continuous improvement requires systematic and unfiltered evaluation.” –Anonymous.
Creating a better nation through constructing better infrastructures is a big role of civil engineers in the construction industry. Powerful forces including demographics, globalization, and rapidly evolving technologies are driving profound changes in the role of engineering in the society.
According to the World Bank, one out of six people worldwide, mostly the poor, have inadequate access to water, more because of limited right to use infrastructure than to water scarcity. Poorly maintained or nonexistent roads also prevent access to health care services and medicines in the developing world.
Historically, a relatively low 3.2 percent of the Philippines’ GDP has been spent on infrastructure. That needs to grow to more than 5 percent of GDP through 2030 to support economic growth to provide the population access to basic needs and to protect against climate change.
Due to general population growth and an expanding economy, more civil engineers will be needed to design and construct higher capacity transportation, water supply, pollution control systems, and large buildings and other developments. They will be needed to repair and replace existing roads and bridges for people to be able to access these basic needs.
Infrastructure construction generates jobs that will be helpful not only to the construction workers but also to those people who do office works. The more public sectors improve and manufacture jobs and private sectors invest in the country, the lesser people will suffer because of unemployment. According to Balisacan, boosting domestic consumption to recoup possible losses in exports, it is needed to minimize the adverse effects of uncertainties in the global market.
A high population growth rate, long considered a hindrance to prosperity, is now seen as a driving force for economic growth. About 61 percent of the population in the Philippines consists of working age. That figure is expected to increase as time goes by.
The county needs to think about how to best optimize its current infrastructure, strengthen capacities to make informed infrastructure investment decisions, and better harness recent technological advancements in the delivery of its infrastructure projects.
The only constant thing in this world is change. We need to keep moving to keep up with other countries and with ourselves. A small improvement can make a big difference. As Confucius said, “It doesn’t matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.”