On screen:
Close-up of Paula’s office, alternating between her screen and her face

On screen:
Paula in a room at Challenger

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Paula – Design engineer

Paula (Design engineer):
"I studied building and civil works engineering in Chile and obtained a degree. I then decided to a master's degree specialised in European civil engineering with a civil engineering construction option at the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées."

On screen:
Paula enters her office

Paula:
"A design engineer works during the design stage to find various technical solutions able to meet the specific requirements of a project, as well as during the construction works stage and the development stage of a project, concession or construction."

On screen:
Paula at her work station

Paula:
"This is where I enter the geometric data and all the various loads that need to be taken into construction during the design of the balanced cantilever deck sections. It’s a bridge with successive cantilevers."

On screen:
Paula in a room

Paula:
"Everything begins with the structural modelling of the construction, an analysis of the loads acting on the structure and a calculation of the internal loads. This provides the structural dimensioning. In practice, it means calculations in which the engineer provides the quantities of materials, steel, prestressing cables, type of steel section and the reinforcement principle."

On screen:
Paula returns to her office and shows us an image

Journalist:
"Was this image provided by the architect?"

Paula:
"Yes. It’s a three-dimensional view of the construction in its setting. That’s the same viaduct with its six spans and the breakdown of the various cantilevered sections and each individual cantilevered section."

On screen:
Close-up of Paula

Paula:
"When there are a large number of projects being constructed in other countries, a lot of people take the option of working and developing their career while working on the foreign site."

On screen:
Paula working on her computer

Paula:
"When you are a design engineer you know what has to be done; you have to model the structures, do calculations, prepare design calculations, check the drawings and then, after that, you might get to work on the site itself."

On screen:
Paula and a colleague, each working on their computers, then Paula in a meeting room

Paula:
"What I really enjoy is working in a company that really wants to invest in its employees to create a team that will really be efficient and dynamic, and that is capable of producing a structure that will please the client. This is what I’ve found at Bouygues and that was one of fundamental reasons that I decided to join the company."

On screen:
Paula drinking coffee with her colleagues

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