This paper discusses the key issues, opportunities and obligations facing civil engineers to engineer civilisation from the shadows cast by world poverty and global climate change. Almost all of the 1·5 billion population increase occurring by 2025 will be in urban slums in the developing world, with little in the way of civil infrastructure to protect them from disease, famine, drought and flooding. The provision of effective infrastructure, and with it the delivery of the UN millennium development goals, is vital if they are to survive. The paper is based on the author's ICE Brunel international lecture, which was presented in 16 countries during 2007.
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