The Future of Work in Construction: Recent Episodes
The Future of Work in Construction
The Future of Work in Construction podcast invites the most interesting and experienced members of the construction sector to share their thoughts and journeys in exploring how we can work towards an industry that is SMARTER, GREENER and INCLUSIVE.
Ed and Simon take us through at the work Hercules has done to tackle some of the challenges in the industry and how their approach to digital transformation puts people ahead of systems and the benefit of a smaller bottom approach versus a 1 size fits all top down approach.
Helen Townend, Technical Director for diversity and inclusion at Amey, takes us through her journey from geologist to leading the inclusion strategy, the challenges in developing an inclusive environment and why we need to give children greater exposure to engineering at a younger age.
Maria reflects on her career journey and highlights that HS2 is the one employer
who allowed her to bring the best of her skills and abilities with the flexibility that she
needed.
Chris Winfield from Hercules Site Services and Jas Sandhu from Balfour Beatty Highways will share latest approaches and challenges in driving the social value from a client and supply chain perspectives and how digital is moving the industry forward.
Nidhi shares her vision for sustainability in the industry. She also talks about how she was able to progress in her career and what type of barriers and challenges she had to overcome in her career path.
Teik shares his career journey, his challenges at work and how he has
overcome them over time. And address what still needs to be done in
fostering suppliers diversity.
Emily shares what makes a leader in the construction industry and the
work she is doing with the Future Leaders Forum. How do we create and
nurture new generation of leaders in the sector.
Today Mamta will be chatting with our next amazing guest, Dr Margi Vilnay
Margi is a director of public engagement and outreach for School science and engineering at the University of Dundee as well as a lecturer on structural engineering.
Margi shares her career journey and reflects on how women can get into in the engineering sector today.
She also discussed the importance of diversity in civil engineering and amazing projects they have been doing at the University in order to drive inclusion and inspire a new generation to the industry.
Have you ever worked on big scale projects like Google HQ or Olympics? Hear from Jason Prior, the founding Partner at Prior and Partners on what it takes to drive these projects forward , how to design and tackle issues ranging from environmental and economic implications, to the practicality of making it happen and how to create an inclusive and diverse work place when planning large infrastructure projects
Are you working on making your business a smarter and inclusive workplace? In this concast our host Mamta Gera will be chatting with Amanda McKay- Quality & Assurance Director at Balfour Beatty VINCI Joint Venture HS2 who will share with you their new agile work policy as well as how Amanda became a changed person at work.