Under Pressure

Whoops....

As worthy engineering projects go, stabilising a lethal natural booby trap and providing power to an under-developed part of the world rank pretty highly. Solving lethal problems and providing infrastructure to people are high in the civil engineers motive drivers, well that and “oh waay cool” and “blow it up again” of course and as lethal problems go, this one is a corker.

Am I boring you?

its like engineering meets art... and misses completely.

I'm in engineering geek mode today, screw IT, let’s move a mega-tonne of silt and slap concrete all over it. That’s a real job. Back in the day, when I actually knew how to do things, I was going to be a civil engineer. It turned out that it doesn’t pay very well and standing waist deep in mud and shouting at people whilst wearing a hard hat didn’t appeal very much so I drifted into IT and information theory but part of me is always going to love civils and tunnelling in particular.