Engineering (Civil) - Good for planning?

[GodBeastX]

Originally Posted by fredtheobviouspseudonym

-- as a lot of the technical details, nuts & bolts of "if the overhead lights are here & here, the wiring has to go . . . and what about the conflict with the toilet outflow pipe . . . " are going to be done by expert software plugged into the office computers.

Said widgets will be able to run a few thousand possible permutations of such designs to come up with the "best" solution (which will probably NOT cause short circuits, explosions, sewage leaking into the reception room, &c.)

You'd have to hire a high-quality professional to go over the plans to ensure that the computer didn't have a hiccup, but that's a lot cheaper than having humans do all the work.

Hueristical search, noice.

However, what about in pre-computing ERAs? That seems like an equipment bonus to me.