These days she finds the meaning too ambiguous.
In terms of going into engineering, I came from an all-girls school.Actually, a lot of my friends went into the role.
It was very normal to do engineering.I didn’t really think about it as a male-dominated thing, it was just something that suited my personality and that I enjoy.Obviously, since I went to university and into the workplace, there aren’t a lot of females in the industry, but it's not something I generally think about.
Especially in this environment, where there are a lot of females.There are a lot of female architects.
We all work together on a project… it’s more of an even split in this office and we’re all working together and bringing the same sort of things to the table..
I think the kinds of projects we get involved with [at Bryden Wood] are really interesting - the areas that we look into, the DfMA aspect of things.Prepare a Circular Economy Statement which describes the strategies that the project is going to adopt.
This ensures everyone is working with the same processes in mind and any risks are known and managed from the outset.. Maximise reuse in the built environment.The key sustainable construction principle for reducing the quantity of new materials used in the industry is to build less.
This is most easily achieved by reusing existing building stock.Existing buildings have the potential to be refurbished by retaining existing building elements and improving them to suit future uses..