Young Achiever Award
IROSHA GUNATUNGA MEng Civil Engineering, 2015
Irosha has been recognised for impact in her industry through her engineering talents and her involvement in STEM activities to encourage young people to consider engineering as career.
The reason Irosha enjoys her work so much can be summed up in just one word – legacy. She derives enormous satisfaction from creating structures and solving problems that will benefit people for years to come, and she first experienced this after a summer placement at the London Olympic Games.
Irosha was thrilled to see an area of work she had been involved in during the construction phase enjoyed by the thousands of visitors.
She said: “I went when the Games were on and was really proud that an area of landscaping I had helped design was part of the whole Olympic experience.”
As a qualified engineer, Irosha now leads on new bridge constructions and major rail projects and still gets the same buzz: “I am making people’s journeys safer and faster but often passengers have no idea that anything has happened. For instance we had just a 52-hour window for a new bridge construction over Christmas. It was the culmination of months of work behind the scenes and passengers wouldn’t have been any the wiser.”
Such is her job satisfaction that Irosha is part of the BAM Nuttall staff who act as ambassadors to encourage more young people to study STEM subjects and civil engineering in particular, visiting schools and colleges.
She says there is a massive skills shortage in her sector and is keen to highlight how the once male-dominated industry is changing.
“The new generation of engineers come from different backgrounds and are more embracing and I have some amazing female role models who have been incredibly supportive. I am now mentoring an apprentice and with my ambassador work hope I am a role model too.”
“I went when the Games ”
were on and was really proud that an area of landscaping I had helped design was part of the whole Olympic experience.
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