Runner up Dorothee Martin Award

Last night I collected this award on behalf of my son who is studying engineering at Durham uni. It was presented by Dorothee's grandson at Les Rocquettes.
Dorothee Pullinger 1894 - 1986 was a pioneering woman automobile engineer and businesswoman. In the 1920s she ran a factory in Scotland which employed mostly women producing the Galloway automobile, a light-weight model marketed specifically for women. (There is one on display in Glasgow's Museum of Transport.) The car factory had a tennis court on the roof, a swimming pool, a hockey team and piano room for relaxation! In her spare time she liked to race, and regularly took part in the Scottish Six Day Trials, winning with the Galloway in 1924. After the second world war she moved with her husband and two children to Guernsey where she establisehd Normandy Laundries in 1950. She died in Guernsey age 94. In 2012 she was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame.
After the presentation, a guest speaker involved with the building of the Olympic Park gave a talk, with some mind boggling figures and facts. Some of interesting things she spoke about included the legacy of the park which is now being transformed, with temporory structures being removed like the wings of the aquatic centre, and the wide footbridges are being narrowed. I was impressed by how much of the demolished site was recycled, I think she said 90 % and how they built a huge expensive plant for soil remediation. The speaker was proud to tell us that nobody got killed in the building of the stadium, unlike the bird's nest stadium in Beijing which was more impressive but caused 100 deaths in the making. It was a very interesting talk.