Civil Engineering and the Deterioration of the Environment in Colombia

The recent deterioration of the environment in Colombia is principally due to an accelerated demographic and economic growth with little State control. However, construction of infrastructure works has also significantly contributed to this situation. Environmental considerations have increasingly been taken into account in engineering projects in the last decades. It is up to the engineering profession to assume a set of values that will ensure environmental ethics which put the general interest and that of future generations before individual interests.