The French Consulting Engineer

What is consulting engineering?

Here is the nearest thing to an accurate definition of the word as it is understood by French practitioners:

"Consulting engineering is the sum of all operations preceding or accompanying the execution of any technological project in so far as they are distinct from the actual performance of the work to be done; the word " project" being understood in its widest sense, as being applicable to individual objects (such as machines, or bridges or aqueducts) as well as developments and extensive undertakings of an agricultural or an industrial character, including developments of large areas, such as territories or cities, along with the substructural systems required in that kind of developments-in a word to all works of man that help to raise the standard of human living".