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Calibre challenges gender inequality by promoting diversity and inclusion

International Women’s Day (IWD) has been recognised since 1911 and honours the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, in New Zealand and all over the world. This year’s campaign theme for International Women’s Day is ‘Choose to Challenge’. A challenged world is an alert world. And from challenge comes change. With this recognition in mind, it is pertinent to highlight some of the positive advances made from engineering firm, Calibre. Calibre has stepped up to become a leader in promoting diversity and inclusion in its workforce, and in this article, we talk to some of the company’s people who are making a difference by bridging the gap in gender inequality.

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Thriving as a graduate during a pandemic

Evelyn Baxter started as a graduate with Calibre just two short months before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. She shares some of her personal experiences from this challenging time and offers tips to help you thrive as a graduate engineer during a pandemic.

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The Challenges of remote software deployment within an operational context

Earlier this month, Calibre's David Dixon (Senior Engineer Systems) and Matt Smith (Systems Architect - Rail Systems) spoke at the Rail Industry Safety and Standards Board (Australia) RISSB webinar.

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Sustainable, healthy and safe design - building the future with wood

It is well documented that here in Aotearoa we are facing a housing crisis and the New Zealand government is looking to developers and those who work in the built environment to provide affordable answers. This has led to an increase in urban density in our main cities, with a focus on building good quality, well designed apartment blocks; something that traditionally has not been prevalent across NZ.

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