<p>Being an architect in the public sector, we outsource much of our engineering work as we don’t have the full capacity to do all of it ourselves (we own almost 3,000 buildings).</p>
<p>It’s somewhat rare that we hire civil engineers. We do, almost always, hire MEP engineers.</p>
<p>If we need a civil engineer, it usually is the consulting architect that we hire, who turns around and hires the civil engineer. </p>
<p>This is most likely because we do very little new construction. It’s nearly all rehab work.</p>
<p>So, if there will be very little construction the next few years or even decades, I will venture a guess and say that civil engineers will be in less demand than MEP’s.</p>
<p>But…a lot of cities (like NY) are rebuilding bridges and tunnels instead of building new ones because of cost constraints. So, there are niches where CE’s will certainly be needed…but not as much as in the past.</p>