
First Woman President of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)
January 2015, Living Systems Institute building (during construction) University of Exeter
b.1953, Stafford
Involved in the design and supervision of a wide range of civil and structural projects over her 40 year career, in 1983 Sarah Buck was elected as the first woman council member of the Institution of Structural Engineers – an organisation with 27,000 members operating in 105 countries. In 2007, nearly a century after its formation, Sarah was made the Institution’s first female president, aged 54.