GRAHAM lends support to Women into Construction initiative

Young women from across Central Scotland participating in the Women into Construction programme have completed a three-day course to build a wind turbine facilitated by contractor GRAHAM. Women into Construction has been devised by Action for Children to encourage more females into the construction industry, where women currently only account for 14% of the workforce. GRAHAM is a lead partner of the initiative and arranged for the group of young women to take part in the wind turbine project with ConStructEd Scotland at Sibbald’s training facility at Blackridge, to further develop their learning and gain practical, real life construction experience. The hands-on course has seen the group manage all aspects of the wind turbine construction project from the ground up. Working outdoors in the elements, the team have built formwork, tested and poured concrete before erecting the turbine mast and assembling the electrics to generate power.