Video: Women working on the Centre Block project

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(Text on screen: Public Services and Procurement Canada)

(Text on screen: This footage was recorded prior to the Government of Canada’s physical distancing guidelines. Canadians are encouraged to continue to follow COVID-19 safety guidelines.)

[Shot of Gabrielle Jarawan talking on screen.]

(Text on screen: Gabrielle Jarawan, EIT, Deputy Project Manager, Centre Block Rehabilitation)

Hi my name is Gabrielle Jarawan, I’m a deputy project manager on the site works team within the Centre Block Program at PSPC.

[Shot of Gabrielle wearing a white construction helmet outside writing notes on pad on a windy day.]

I found myself ending up in civil engineering just because it was the one field of engineering where it was the most open.

[Shot of the top of the Centre Block tower showing scaffolding.]

[Shot of a road with a mountain in the background.]

[Shot of cars on a highway surrounded by trees and mountains.]

[Shot of two workers walking in an underground utility room.]

[Shot of two workers standing in an underground utility room.]

[Shot of two workers near large conduction pipes]

[Shot of a worker looking up at steel stairs.]

It touches a bit on everything. I could do some buildings, I could do roads, highways, environmental, underground utilities.

[Shot of Gabrielle talking on screen.]

It’s such a vast subject that I have the possibility and the choice of choosing where I want to go.

[Close-up shot of Gabrielle talking on screen.]

There’s never a day that’s exactly like the other.

[Close-up shot of Gabrielle wearing a white construction helmet outside writing notes on pad on a windy day.]

Something is always popping up, something is always different.

[Panning shot of a group of women smiling. Gabrielle is in the centre.]

There’s always something that happens, you just have to deal with it. My first advice would be to go for it. My second advice is to not be intimidated by the fact that this is a male dominated industry.

[Shot of Gabrielle and a male co-worker pointing at a construction site detail of a dug out pit.]

[Close-up shot of Gabrielle and a male co-worker talking. They are both wearing white construction hats and safety bibs.]

It’s slowly changing, we just need more women and girls to come into the field.

[Shot of Gabrielle talking on screen.]

Even though you might feel intimidated being there initially, remember that you deserve to be there and you have worked hard to be there just the same as everybody else around you.

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