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ISCO 2142 · O*NET 17-2051.00 · codes unverified

Civil engineer

A profession where being wrong is measured in lives, which turns out to be the thing that holds it in place.

59
Resilience Blending

The job is becoming a partnership. Output goes up, and the judgement calls become most of the value.

0 rebuilding 100 anchored

Scale, labels and thresholds are provisional. This is open question Q-02.

10 of 20 in the launch set

How the score is made

Four declared inputs, never collapsed into one number. Assistance is kept apart from outright automation, because a tool that makes you faster and a tool that replaces you are not the same event. Physical work counts as shelter only to the extent robotics cannot reach it.

The full method is written out, including what it cannot tell you.

Note on this occupation Placeholder values. Professional liability functions here much as physical presence does elsewhere: it anchors the task to a person.

Assisted
70

Higher is generally good news. It means more of the work gets faster without the work going away.

Done outright
38

This is the number most people mean when they say exposure. It is kept separate from assistance on purpose.

Physical
30

Protective only for as long as robotics cannot reach it. Read this one next to the robotics number, never alone.

Robotics reach
28

Low reach turns physical work into shelter. High reach turns it into the main exposure.

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What changes

Tasks moving to machines, in whole or in part.

  • Drafting, modelling and routine structural calculation.
  • Documentation, specification and tender packs.
  • Optioneering across many more variants than a team could previously test.

What stays human

Tasks that need a person, and why.

  • Signing off, with a name and a licence attached.
  • Site judgement, where the ground is not what the survey said.
  • Weighing cost, risk and public safety against each other in public.

What's new

Work that did not exist in this job ten years ago.

  • Verifying generated designs to a standard a regulator will accept.
  • Climate resilience and retrofit work.
  • Explaining an automated result to a client or an inquiry.

These three lists are editorial commentary, written against task-level data but not generated from it (OCC-05). Treat them as the author's reading, not as output.

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