• Question: Do you get to meet lots of different people in your work and how do you feel about this?

    Asked by anon-242524 to Zahra on 12 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Zahra Rattray

      Zahra Rattray answered on 12 Mar 2020:

      Yes, I get to meet new people almost on a daily basis. In the beginning you feel really nervous, but eventually you get used to it and it’s fun,!

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  • Photo: katdenhammaccioni

    katdenhammaccioni commented on :

    I love meeting civil engineers who are members of my organisation (ICE) – they do such amazing work… I got sent a film by a group who won some travel-award money yesterday all about their trip to the Philippines to find out about the use of bamboo as a construction material. It was so interesting what they’d found out and how they can consider using it potentially in the UK instead of wood in the future as it’s a lot greener. I’ve met engineers who save poor communities in Bangladesh from flooding, rescue people from earth-quake collapsed buildings and one who is measuring the movements of structures using satellites in space – to make sure they’re not going to collapse suddenly (like the Genoa Bridge). Check out some of them on our online bank of engineer profiles: https://www.ice.org.uk/what-is-civil-engineering/who-are-civil-engineers