Civil engineering in context

"Sir Alan Muir Wood sits in the pantheon of great civil engineers of the twentieth century. In this book - Civil Engineering in Context he draws on his long career to place as he says 'civil engineering in context'. The book contains many personal reminiscences of his life as an engineer from the early days as a wartime marine engineer in the Royal Navy, through to his more than 25 year long career as a Partner and Senior Partner with Halcrow and as a tunnelling engineer of world renown." "Civil Engineering in Context also presents Sir Alan's strongly held and sometimes controversial views on how civil engineering as an industry has developed since the pragmatic enterprise of the nineteenth century, through a twentieth century where much of the momentum was lost, and how it should be developing in the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.