Association of Women in Property Announces New

Association of Women in Property announces new

National Chairman

Brenda Jones, WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, takes role from 1st March

The Association of Women in Property has announced its National Chairman for 2017/18. Brenda Jones, technical director in project management services at WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, takes on the role from 1st March, for one year.

With 26 years’ experience in the property and construction industry, Brenda now leads WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff's project management team in Scotland.

Brenda studied Social and Political Sciences and discovered her interest in construction while doing a Masters in Social Policy at the London School of Economics. She then worked in the social housing sector before training as a building surveyor.

Brenda worked as a building surveyor for a number of London boroughs, before moving into a project manager role and locating to Glasgow. Here she joined Atkins for five years, followed by Scottish Enterprise and then Heery, a specialist project and construction management consultancy. Heery has since been through two major mergers and is now part of the global engineering professional services consultancy WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, which will be renamed WSP in May.

Brenda Jones said, “I’m thrilled to take on this role, to continue the good work of my predecessors and make sure that Women in Property provides practical support to its members and employers to achieve a truly diverse industry.

“Given my own educational background, I’m also keen to broaden the appeal of property and construction to people who hadn’t previously considered it as a career choice.”

Mark Naysmith, UK CEO of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, said, “I would like to congratulate Brenda on this appointment, which endorses her experience and personal commitment to diversity in the industry. Within our business we recognise the need for a workforce that is balanced, bringing together people with different backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and skill sets. We are proud to support Brenda in her role heading Women in Property and welcome the influence she will have, both internally with her colleagues and to the wider industry.”

Pictured: Brenda Jones, WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff

WiP National Chairman 2017/18

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WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoffis one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms. Our 36,700 people, based in more than 500 offices, across 40 countries provide engineering and multidisciplinary services in a vast array of industry sectors, with a focus on technical excellence and client service.

In the UK, 7,100 people (includingMouchel Consulting) provide consultancy services to all aspects of the built and natural environment working across both the public and private sectors, with local and national governments, local authorities, developers, contractors and co-professionals. The combined business has been involved in many high profile UK projects including the Shard, Crossrail, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, the Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham, the re-development of London Bridge Station, Manchester Metrolink, M1 Smart Motorway, and the London Olympic & Paralympic Route Network.