They used to call me ‘sir’ on site: Buro Happold’s Sarah Prichard on her journey to the top

By Daniel Gayne2023-06-23T06:02:00

For International Women in Engineering Day, one of the sector’s only female MDs talks about tossing coins, working in the Middle East and where the sector goes from here

Heads or tails. If it had landed the other way, Dr Sarah Prichard might not be sitting in front of me. Today, the Irishwoman is the managing director of Buro Happold’s business in the UK, China and Hong Kong, the latest stage of a two-decade career at the £213m-turnover engineering consultant which has seen her lead major developments across the world.

But things could have been very different.

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