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I wouldn't say that Civil Engineering is developing very slow but the main reason why we are not progressing as fast as other Engineering professions is that our work are directly responsible for the safety of the users.

For a country to accept a new concept of design or a new material for construction they want to have severe testing to be carried out to be sure that the new design method won't fail and or the new material behaves as said and that the standard deviation of the material is small enough, these testings take a very long time I know of a Professor doing tests on concrete behavior for the last 5 years and the tests are still going on.

So if a new material is developed testing on that material may take years to complete so we are a several years behind but that is because of high safety standards.

*Hope this is said correct sorry for the poor grammar its not my strong point :)

-Just as an example in South Africa we have a high quality steel and for more economical construction they wanted to import steel from China but when the steel arrived the properties of the steel was so much weaker than the current steel in SA and there standard deviation was so high that they have sent back the steel to China

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