Tideway honours pioneering female engineer for International Women in Engineering Day

A century after Rachel Parsons helped found the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) and became its first president, a tunnelling machine named in her honour has started digging the super sewer in Fulham. To celebrate International Women in Engineering Day yesterday the chief executive of WES, Elizabeth Donnelly, visited Tideway’s site in Fulham to see the machine named after her organisation’s first president and to meet some of the females working on the Thames Tideway Tunnel. The TBM digging the west section of London’s super sewer has started tunnelling from Carnwath…

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