As she entered the Delhi Metro construction site, on her very first day of work, she heard "She must be a visitor." "There were about a hundred men, mostly laborers with a small number of engineers. They believed I wouldn't last very long.” Annie recalled. The first and only female tunnel construction engineer in the nation remembers that there were no restrooms, no places to sit, and debris everywhere. In a world full changing and emerging architectural trends , tunnel construction work is ready to rule the urban development. Read More: Sustainable Construction and Green Building: How Important They Are? “A German engineer and my boss asked me to get inside it and open a nut. Even before I realized what I was doing, my face was gushed by hydraulic oil. The colleague said my face would glow for the rest of my life. Today tunnelling is my life," said Annie , during the inauguration of South India's first underground Metro rail. In the history of
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