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I am a Civil Engineer and I work as a Senior Project Manager for a global leader in Civil Engineering and Construction.

I work within the Project Engineering function and are I am tasked with bringing and developing new ideas and inventions into workable solutions.   I can be working on design concepts by myself one day to leading a large multi discipline team the next.

My role is to be the glue to stick everything together to make it work.

I am currently working on a project which involves installing  solar panels as the road surface.

It all depends on what my day involves and where I will be working, but it always starts with breakfast.

It may be a 5am start or it may be a day where I work from home.

I work with all of the Colas business units within the UK and with our sister companies worldwide, so I may be holding a telephone meeting in my pyjamas at midnight or on a construction site in the middle of the night.

My role is all about finding solutions to challenges, some people call them problems, but a challenge or a problem is just something you have not found a solution for!

I would use the money to bring together existing digital media companies and local student ICE branches to set up a monthly digital news feed which informs 10 to 16 year olds of the really exciting construction projects which are going on around them.  It would include technical challenges to be solved and a meet the engineer section.