‘I want women to believe a career in this industry is possible’

By Daniel Gayne2022-06-23T10:07:00

To mark International Women in Engineering Day, Building spoke to Amy Bunszel, executive vice president for AEC design solutions at Autodesk

For Amy Bunszel, the advent of the Zoom era sparked an unexpected change in the workplace – suddenly it wasn’t quite so hard to be heard.

“It was interesting,” she said. “Zoom created a nice level playing field – everyone was in a box, you could raise your hand and you would have your turn to speak”.

Bunszel has worked in construction and engineering – both fields which have suffered from a stubborn gender imbalance – for roughly twenty years, and knows what it is like to have to fight to be heard.

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