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Engineering & Architecture · Updated Aug 2026

Civil Engineers

Perform engineering duties in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
61/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
53/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence83/100
Task coverage86%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Direct engineering activities, ensuring compliance with environmental, safety, or other governmental regulations.High
76
Compute load and grade requirements, water flow rates, or material stress factors to determine design specifications.Medium
72
Manage and direct the construction, operations, or maintenance activities at project site.High
71
Analyze survey reports, maps, drawings, blueprints, aerial photography, or other topographical or geologic data.Medium
72
Test soils or materials to determine the adequacy and strength of foundations, concrete, asphalt, or steel.High
72
Plan and design transportation or hydraulic systems or structures, using computer-assisted design or drawing tools.Medium
53
Estimate quantities and cost of materials, equipment, or labor to determine project feasibility.Medium
71
Provide technical advice to industrial or managerial personnel regarding design, construction, program modifications, or structural repairs.Medium
44
Identify environmental risks and develop risk management strategies for civil engineering projects.Medium
72
Inspect project sites to monitor progress and ensure conformance to design specifications and safety or sanitation standards.High
32
Direct or participate in surveying to lay out installations or establish reference points, grades, or elevations to guide construction.Medium
17
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Direct engineering activities, ensuring compliance with environmental, safety, or other governmental regulations.76
  2. Compute load and grade requirements, water flow rates, or material stress factors to determine design specifications.72
  3. Analyze survey reports, maps, drawings, blueprints, aerial photography, or other topographical or geologic data.72
  4. Test soils or materials to determine the adequacy and strength of foundations, concrete, asphalt, or steel.72
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Direct or participate in surveying to lay out installations or establish reference points, grades, or elevations to guide construction.01
  2. Inspect project sites to monitor progress and ensure conformance to design specifications and safety or sanitation standards.02
  3. Provide technical advice to industrial or managerial personnel regarding design, construction, program modifications, or structural repairs.03
  4. Compute load and grade requirements, water flow rates, or material stress factors to determine design specifications.04
  5. Manage and direct the construction, operations, or maintenance activities at project site.05
Where else this work leads

Related occupations

Occupations O*NET links to this one. Relatedness reflects shared work, not a claim that these roles are safer.

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency74
Physical dependency40
Adoption pressure58
Labour-market resilience60
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence83/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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