March 3-9, 2024 Marks Women in Construction Week
This is a time to celebrate women and their accomplishments.
Our own Mary and Tammy with their advice to women wanting to join the construction industry:
Mary Haffner, Project Manager, has been working with Shannon Construction for over 20 years. She has seen many improvements within construction, most notably safety advances, waste reduction, and improved software.
'Set your goals, be open-minded, ask questions and there will be support available for women to be successful in construction.'
Tammy Chiesa, Project Manager, has been with Shannon Construction for 8 years and has seen numerous changes in our industry. With the use of new software, communication between the field and office staff has become instantaneous, and BIM and 3D printing technologies are now more accessible.
Her thoughts:
- Women are exceptionally talented and many are up for a challenge, take the challenge!
- The construction industry includes a wide range of roles from management to surveying, civil engineering to bricklaying.
- Attitudes are changing and women are gaining respect.
- The construction industry is full of opportunity. One may limit construction to field work but that's not the case. Construction companies require estimators, design teams, accountants, project engineers, marketing and sales, human resources, safety, project administrators, etc.
Both Mary and Tammy have taken note that over the years women have gained more support and stereotypes are fading in the construction industry. Women are being hired in the field as engineers, project managers, and tradeswomen.
