The Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering is a monthly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 established in 1974 and published by the NRC Research Press

NRC Research Press

NRC Research Press is a scientific publisher in Canada. It publishes 15 journals in a broad range of scientific and technical disciplines. All journals are available online full-text in both pdf and HTML format and are accessible before print publication....

. It covers environmental, hydrotechnical, structure, and construction engineering

Engineering

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, as well as engineering mechanics, engineering materials, and a history of civil engineering. Papers are available on the Internet

Internet

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 in advance of print issues and are available in full-text HTML

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 and PDF

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 formats.

The Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering is the official journal of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering was founded in 1887 as the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, renamed in 1918 as the Engineering Institute of Canada , and re-established in June 1972 as member society of the EIC under the slightly different but current name...

. The editors in chief

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 are Tarek Sayed (University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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) and Mike Bartlett (University of Western Ontario

University of Western Ontario

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