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The College of Civil Engineers of Entre Ríos (Cpicer) referred to the current situation of the sector in the province and, particularly, in Gualeguaychú. With practically no national and provincial public works, they are appealing to the municipalities to add engineers to supervise the works carried out.
The national governments decision to end public works, in addition to cutting spending, continues to have consequences for economic activity throughout the country. And neither the province of Entre Ríos nor the department of Gualeguaychú are exempt from this reality.
But, contrary to what one might infer from common sense, this circumstance not only affects thousands of families of construction workers and, consequently, the consumption chain that the activity generates, but also directly impacts the possibilities of engineering professionals to find employment.
Aníbal García is a civil engineer and president of the Southeast Regional Office of the College of Civil Engineers of Entre Ríos (Cpicer) and, in conversation with EL ARGENTINO, he referred to this situation. “We have a junior engineer who graduated recently and cannot find a job, so he is working in the family grocery store, at 25 years old and after completing a degree in Civil Engineering. “There are engineers who are working in a grocery store, this happened a lot in 2001, when I graduated. Then, an engineer who has more than 4 years of experience and was working with a company that does public works is in the same one. These companies, when they have to downsize, like now, fire the youngest engineers first. She, being new, does not have clients in the private sector, as I do with 22 years of experience in the profession, so she ends up working in a clothing store,” García explained. "It is a totally praiseworthy job, but she trained to be a civil engineer," he added.
The Southeast Regional Office of the College of Civil Engineers of Entre Ríos includes the departments of Gualeguaychú, Islas and Gualeguay. However, of the 45 professionals that make up the College, 40 are from Gualeguaychú. “It is a great concern of the College to be able to generate work for these junior engineers,” said García, in this regard. At the same time, he assured that “public works are stopped, there are none from the Nation, we are looking at the province, but practically everything is stopped. But the municipalities have to do it with their own resources.”
"The municipalities that are carrying out works lack civil engineering professionals," said the head of the Southeast Region, who knows very well how the State works, since he was the zonal head of Architecture during the last governorship of Jorge Pedro Busti and Secretary of Public Services and Public Works of Gualeguaychú, in the first mayorship of Juan José Bahillo.
“We are the only professionals who have the authority to do paving, granular stabilization, curbs, sewers, water, everything that involves moving the ground, etc. These tasks should not be carried out by qualified professionals, they should be supervised by an engineering professional. This does not mean that we do not make mistakes, but when you have a professional in charge, these mistakes tend to be minimized and there is a professional with a degree, a license and a signature. One takes care to do things well,” he indicated. And he gave an example: “With the previous administration, in Gualeguaychú, progress had been made in relation to the work done by the cooperatives that carried out public works. For each cooperative there was one engineer, so the technical capacity of that cooperative company was given to that professional.”
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