Empowering women in construction
When Fatima Mirzad, Master Builders Solutions NSW Specification Consultant, began her career in the construction industry 17 years ago, it was a very daunting industry for a young, female chemical engineer to enter. "When I graduated there weren't many girls or women in construction" she explains. "In my first job as a site engineer, I used to go to petrochemical sites or construction sites and they were all men- it was really difficult to prove yourself as a female professional engineer."