This textbook explores the role that microorganisms play in the engineered protection and enhancement of an environment. It provides useful for engineers theoretical and practical understanding of microorganisms and their functions in civil and environmental engineering.

Volodymyr Ivanov, PhD, earned his PhD and Doctor of Sciences degrees in microbiology and biotechnology in the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. His professional experience includes 40 years of the graduate and post-graduate teaching and research in microbiology and biotechnology in the universities of Ukraine, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore, and USA. He has published over 220 papers, 8 patents, and over 30 book chapters and several monographs on microbial physiology, environmental and construction microbiology and biotechnology. His major scientific achievements are the theory of physiological dualism of a growing cell existing in both exotrophic and endotrophic states, revealing of a multicellular bacterial granule as a proto-organism, periodic table of physiological classification of prokaryotes, and the establishing of Construction Biotechnology as a new scientific discipline.

1. Microorganisms 2. Biomolecules 3. Metabolism 4. Biooxidation and Bioreduction 5. Biodegradation 6. Biosynthesis 7. Cells and Cellular Aggregates 8. Microbial Reproduction and Growth 9. Microbial Ecology 10. Classifications of Viruses and Microorganisms 11. Physiological Classification of Prokaryotes 12. The Groups of Anaerobic Fermenting Prokaryotes 13. The Groups of Anoxic Prokaryotes 14. The Groups of Microaerophilic and Facultative Aerobic Prokaryotes 15. The Groups of Aerobic Prokaryotes 16. Microorganisms and Public Health 17. Biosafety In Civil and Environmental Engineering 18. Biotechnological Processes 19. Microbiological Methods Used In Engineering 20. Aquatic Ecosystems 21. Biotreatment of Polluted Water 22. Anaerobic and Anoxic Treatment of Waste 23. Aerobic Treatment of Wastewater 24. Value-Added Microbial By-Products 25. Biotreatment of Industrial Hazardous Wastes 26. Solid Wastes Biotreatment 27. Bioremediation of Polluted Soil 28. Biomaterials and Bioprocesses of Construction Biotechnology 29. Microbiology of Air and Air Biotreatment 30. Microbiology of Closed Ecosystems 31. Biodeterioration, Biocorrosion, and Biofouling 32. Exam Questions and Solutions