Female engineers leading way at Coast dam upgrade
Sunshine Coast-based contractor Hall Contracting, who has been carrying out construction on the 18-month first stage of the upgrade, has four women working in key roles to deliver the project, including two engineers. And design consultants GHD, who delivered the detailed design and are owner’s engineer on site during the construction works, have an engineering team made of up of about 50 per cent women who are working on the project. Seqwater principal dam engineer Anna Hams said it was encouraging to see greater diversity in gender represented on such a significant project. “As an engin...
Source: sunshinecoastdaily.com.au