06/03/2026
👷♀️ 🏗️ ✨ Women in Construction Week ✨🏗️👷♀️
Over 100 years ago, a group of women were already challenging the norms of the construction industry.
In 1922, suffrage campaigner Ray Strachey led a team of women to build Copse Cottage in Fernhurst, Surrey - using pisé de terre (compressed earth walls) in a project designed to create construction jobs for women after World War I.
At a time when the industry was almost entirely male-dominated, these women proved what was possible.
Today, we’re proud to be continuing work on this historic building and celebrating the legacy of the women who built it. 💚
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