Basic Civil & Environmental Engineering

This book 'Basic Civil & Environmental Engineering' is intended to be a textbook for students of first year engineering of Savitribai Phule Pune University. In most Sciences, one generation years down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In Basic Civil alone, each generation adds a new story to the old structure. Keeping this in mind, this book is written to have a better introduction of the Basic Civil.

This book is presented with simple but exact explanation of subject matter, application of each topic to real-life, engineering problems, large number of illustrative examples followed by well graded exercises. We hope that the students will not only learn some powerful Basic Civil concept, but also will develop their ability to understand the concept and apply it properly to solve engineering problems. We feel that faculty members will also enjoy reading this book which is enriched with applications of each topic.