The theme for this year's International Women in Engineering Day is celebrating our engineering heroes. Irina Popova, shares her story about her recent promotion into the role of Principal Design Engineer and her advice to the next generation of engineering heroes.

This week we're celebrating International Women in Engineering Day, an awareness campaign to raise the profile of women in engineering. Today we're catching up with Heather Smeaton-Lowen, Client Delivery Manager, who shares her thoughts on her 33-year career in the industry.

International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) is celebrating its 8th year in 2021. Initiated by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES), INWED is an international awareness campaign which raises the profile of women in engineering and focuses attention on the amazing career opportunities available to women and girls in the industry. The initiative aims to recognise the best, brightest and bravest women in engineering, who recognise a problem, then dare to be part of the solution. We catch up with some of our female colleagues on their thoughts about INWED.

The Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF) is a government grant that supports the development and deployment of technologies that enable businesses with high energy use to transition to a low carbon future, in line with the UK’s net zero goals and sustainability ambitions.

Sagnik Murthy, Head of Client Relationships, explains how rail electrification may be one of the answers to the emissions challenge.

Ian Smyth, Director of UK Power Networks Services spoke to The Airport Operator, the official magazine of the Airport Operators Association about the role of airports within the UK's national infrastructure strategy and the steps to sustainability the aviation sector will need to take to rebound from COVID-19.