Female engineers panel for international women in engineering day

Rachel Hayden

Rachel is a Chartered Civil Engineer, currently working as a senior engineer at WSP.

She is the ICE SW STEM Ambassador of the Year 2024, chair of the ICE Truro City Club and was one of the 2022/23 ICE President’s Future Leaders. 

Rachel graduated with a first-class MEng civil engineering degree from the University of Bath in 2021.

Prior to working at WSP, Rachel worked at both Bechtel and Laing O’Rourke on projects including The Grange University Hospital, Hinkley Point C, CityFibre and Devonport Dockyards.

After winning the UK Construction & Engineering Undergraduate of the Year in 2018, Rachel also completed a summer working across Australia.

Anna Furmaniak

Anna is a design lead engineer working at CORMAC for 3+ years and is currently working towards her ICE Chartership after graduating from the University of Manchester with MEng in civil engineering in 2020. She is currently working on Newquay Strategic Route in Cornwall to construct a bridge and causeway across a floodplain, and various other highway retaining structures in Cornwall.

Emma Blakesley

Emma worked in Geotechnical Labs and has now transitioned into the Highways Asset Incident Management team at Cormac. Emma studied Physical Geography and Geology at the University of Gloucestershire before completing a Masters in Mining Geology at Camborne School of Mines.