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EPISODE · Oct 15, 2018 · 40 MIN

#7 The woman who built Trump Tower

from Engineering Matters

The story of how Brooklyn born maths genius Barbara Res became head of construction for Trump Tower, despite deep-rooted sexism that sat at the heart of construction – and society in the 1970s and 1980s. Project owner Donald Trump modestly called Trump Tower “the most important project in the world” and to deliver it, he...

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