‘You could talk to forty people in one day and they are all working on completely different projects and it’s all happening under this one roof.

In the built environment, we didn’t have time to wonder how two-metre social distancing might work, we just had to get on and do it.COVID-19 forced our hand.

We also had a tantalising glimpse of what car-free cities look like and, better yet, sound and smell like (even if things went back to how they were pretty quickly).. We know it can be done.We’ve seen that in some circumstances we can deliver change, really quickly.The question now is, what are we going to do next?.

Construction technology: Building with agility and building agility in.In the Creative Technologies team at Bryden Wood, we’ve been working for some time with Highways England on smart motorways.

We developed our Rapid Engineering Model, or REM – a digital workflow that absorbs a huge range of data sets and design rules and generates a variety of outputs.

These outputs – including virtual reality motorway driving – allow us to visualise and assess risks and opportunities of a smart motorway at the earliest planning stages.It’s well suited to my personality, because I like getting into the detail of things.

I’m a very maths and science-based thinker, so it’s the area that I enjoy..I didn’t really think about [being fem.

ale] until I got into the workplace.In terms of going into engineering, I came from an all-girls school.