Municipal Engineering is usually carried out by professional engineers, but other professions such as Planners, Transportation Planners, Architects and Landscape architects can also be involved.
Municipal is defined as pertaining to a town or city or its local government. Municipal engineering is concerned with providing the infrastructure for a town or city or its local government.
This has involved, historically, the conception, design, specification, supervision, construction, maintenance and decommissioning of public roads, footways, footpaths, cycle paths and bridges; water supply networks and sewers; street lighting; municipal solid waste management and disposal; all public spaces such as squares, parks, crematoria and burial grounds; harbours and flooding; optimisation of public transport and in doing so communicate throughout with politicians and the community.
Some of these disciplines overlap with other civil engineering specialties, however municipal engineering focuses on the coordination of these infrastructure networks and services, as they are often built simultaneously (for a given street or development project), and managed by the same municipal authority.
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