Posted On June 14, 2018
Interview with Mary Rose Griffiths
Mary Rose Griffiths is a Partner and Board member of G&T and has been with the firm for 21 years. She is a highly experienced development monitoring specialist and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Building.
A champion of the firm’s first Women’s Development Programme, she is also one of the judges of the WICE (Women in Construction & Engineering) Awards for the second year running.
Where was your first job?
Assistant quantity surveyor with specialist curtain walling and façade manufacturer Hans Schmidlin, a Swiss company.
Who is your role model/mentor?
I never had a specific role model or mentor but I’ve learned from many people over the years.
Most exciting project you’ve worked on (so far)?
From an engineering perspective, the most exciting one was monitoring the Crossrail Station at Canary Wharf, which entailed the construction of a 250m long station box under the water of the West India Dock. The two most professionally interesting projects were both very challenging ones: Wembley Stadium, where I was part of a technical advisor team to the group of lenders, and working on the investigation for Audit Scotland into the procurement and management of the Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood.