They worked on a huge variety of projects: telecommunications, data centres, schools, hospitals, generator enclosures, and embassies for the government.
As the years have gone on, more women have entered which is really great.Working at Bryden Wood, there are more women within the team at all different levels, which is really great to see.
It’s a great industry to be in.You can be doing anything.You can be involved in healthcare, you can be involved in humanitarian levels, through to quite heavy engineering for dams and things like that, which can physically change people’s lives.
So it’s a great time to be in it.Within Bryden Wood I don’t feel that there are any blockers.
I have felt it in other companies that I’ve worked, but no.
I think there are enough [female] role models at very very senior levels that there aren’t any blockers within it..The key to achieving this is better communication between owners and suppliers, where the supply chain can offer equivalent alternatives and remove some ‘bespokeness’ from the process..
If we issue the same design intent multiple times but continue to detail it in slightly different ways, the result is lots of slightly different projects, all with different supply chains.Instead, we could save on project costs and schedules if everyone optimised around the same thing, started defining the information behind standardisation and supply chains, and began thinking of projects more like products.. 5.
Only by dispelling the mystique of construction, can we reveal real value..The construction industry needs to shift its thinking towards recognising similarity and repeatability by using repeatable components to create unique systems.. Construction companies are already operating at 100% capacity or more.