The first conference was held in London in 1983. Further Civil-Comp Conferences have been held in Europe on a regular basis. Previous venues for the Civil-Comp Conferences have included: Edinburgh, Budapest, Prague, Leuven, Lisbon, Gran Canaria, Athens, Valencia, Dubrovnik, Naples, Sitges and Montpelier.
The 15,000 papers from past conferences are archived on www.ctresources.info and papers are allocated DOIs.
A major objective of the conference will be to link research and innovative ideas to engineering practice. Presentations describing technology transfer from recent research projects to practical projects are encouraged.
The conference is also concerned with both theoretical, mathematical and scientific developments as well as applications of established technology to new domains.
The conference runs concurrently with:
- AI CIVIL-COMP 2025: The Seventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, Machine Learning and Optimization in Engineering, and
- PARENG 2025: The Eighth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, GPU and Cloud Computing for Engineering
Conference participants may attend sessions from any of the three conferences.
- Civil Engineering Computations
- Structural Engineering Computations
- Environmental Engineering Modelling and Simulation
- Computational Geotechnics
- Computational Mechanics
- Computational Tools and Techniques for Railway Engineering
- Materials: Analysis, Design and Development
- Computational Engineering Education
Focus Areas
The following focus areas have been identified as of particular interest to the conference:
- Machine Learning and AI
- Optimization Techniques and Methods
- Systems Engineering
- Internet Applications and Collaborative Methods
- Processing and Learning from Large Engineering Data Sets
- Monitoring and Data Processing
- 3D Printing and Optimization
- Development and Use of Digital Twins
- Engineering Modelling, Information Systems, Management and Decision Making
The current list of special sessions includes: