Welcome to the third in our series of interviews counting down to International Women’s Day on 8 March. Today, Dr Melanie Robinson takes her turn.

CM hears the experiences of female professionals since Covid-19 changed everything two years ago.

Study shows that giving all personnel a full weekend benefits workers and their families.

Key questions about discrimination in construction and how to combat it answered.

CIOB EDI Advisory Panel members presented the Diversity Champion Award at the BPIC Network Awards 2021 in December.

Becoming more inclusive will bring business benefits, says Rachel Newman.

Amid a compelling business case for more diversity and inclusion, new five-point charter aims to set out practical and useful behaviours that construction companies can work towards to make the industry more inclusive.

Balfour Beatty has launched a new site cabin design with integrated disability and neurodiverse features.

Women, ethnic minorities and other intersectional groups are leaving the engineering profession prematurely as a result of “career deflection”, Atkins has warned.

HS2 has launched a new initiative that aims to enable companies of all sizes in its supply chain to be inclusive and to follow best practice on diversity.

Multiplex has adopted a new flexible working plan called ‘Multiple Flex’ as part of a bid to increase the number and influence women working in the business.

A free online tool to check the effectiveness of the ventilation in indoor spaces in limiting the spread of covid-19 has been developed by safety partners.

A Balfour Beatty project engineer, Ayo Ogunbambi-Alao, has been sharing her views on diversity and inclusion with Balfour Beatty chief executive Leo Quinn, as part of a reverse mentoring programme

Members of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) have created a new video setting out their vision for an inclusive future in construction.

Jane Dackiewicz, head of HR at SCAPE, reports on its work with Willmott Dixon and the CIOB to produce a diversity and inclusion charter.

The Construction Leadership Council is to develop standard measures of how the sector seeks to improve equality and diversity in its workforce and is seeking industry views on how best to do this.

A group of Balfour Beatty shareholders has registered its unhappiness with the lack of diversity on Balfour Beatty’s board by voting against the reappointment of one of its directors.

A new scheme has been launched that will see construction workers use stickers on their hard hats to display that they have undertaken training courses on issues such as inclusion and mental health.