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O*NET detailed work activityDesign civil structures or systems
AI-assistCreate & design
4 jobs8 tasks
Use AI to generate lots of options, references and rough mock-ups fast. The craft, the taste and the final call are what make it yours.
Part of Design structures or facilities, under the O*NET work activity group Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 8 AI-assist, 0 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Design or prepare plans for new transportation systems or parts of systems, such as airports, commuter trains, highways, streets, bridges, drainage structures, or roadway lighting.
- Design, promote, or administer government plans or policies affecting land use, zoning, public utilities, community facilities, housing, or transportation.
- Design domestic or industrial water or wastewater treatment plants, including advanced facilities with sequencing batch reactors (SBR), membranes, lift stations, headworks, surge overflow basins, ultraviolet disinfection systems, aerobic digesters, sludge lagoons, or control buildings.
- Design water or wastewater lift stations, including water wells.
- Design water runoff collection networks, water supply channels, or water supply system networks.
- Design sludge treatment plants.
- Design new or improved transport infrastructure, such as junction improvements, pedestrian projects, bus facilities, or car parking areas.