Women are beginning to warm up to the concrete and construction industry and there has been a demonstrable growth in the demographic both in the states and abroad. 22-year-old Emily Burridge, Technical Production Manager for Hanson Aggregates, says concrete is her passion. Burridge's path to the industry was helped tremendously by a distance learning degree apprenticeship she was hired for, where she spent four days a week at the jobsite.
She was the first girl ever hired on the scheme and, two weeks after starting, she and a fellow apprentice were thrown into the deep end.They were asked to research and create a roller-compacted concrete for a customer - it is a drier mix than conventional concrete and something Hanson had never made before.
