To celebrate International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) Jessica Buxton, a Trainee CAD Technician, Taylor Ryan, an Apprentice Site Engineer, and Insha Zahid, a Graduate Engineer discuss their own unique career paths into construction and infrastructure, and how gender diversity in the industry can be improved, as well as sharing their personal 'engineering heroes'.

Balfour Beatty said: "We're dedicated to attracting the best of the next generation of experts to Balfour Beatty and to ensuring we represent the communities in which we work, which includes increasing our female representation within the business. With 10% of our engineering job family made up of women, we're committed to doing more in this space.

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"We continue to be guided by our Include Everyone Action Plan as we seek to meet current and future skills demands. We know that attracting and retaining a diverse workforce - from entry level through to advanced professional roles - will be key to our continued success.

"We know that our actions to date have put us on the right track. For example, in our emerging talent population (apprentices, graduates and trainees), we've almost quadrupled the number of female engineers from 2% in 2014, to 7% today. And in roughly the same period, we've also seen an increase in the female population at Balfour Beatty, growing from 16.4% to 18.6% today.

"As we mark International Women in Engineering Day three of our female apprentice and graduate engineers share how they're forging their own paths into rewarding careers at Balfour Beatty."