Building the future of infrastructure leadership
BuildHerThon is a Trimble platform created to place women at the centre of the future of the built environment.
It brings together leadership, technology and real-world infrastructure challenges to shape how the industry evolves, who participates in it and how the next generation is developed.
BuildHerThon
is a
Platform
Its not a campaign layered onto existing industry activity.
It connects leadership, delivery and future talent in a more visible and structured way.
It moves leadership from visibility into action and into real-world delivery. In doing so, it turns visibility into contribution, and contribution into long term impact.
The built environment is facing a fundamental shift. It must respond to increasingly complex challenges, from climate resilience and urbanisation to energy transition and resource constraints. At the same time, it must attract and develop a new generation of talent capable of shaping that future.
Yet across much of the industry, women remain underrepresented in leadership, technical and decision-making roles.
This shapes how infrastructure is designed, delivered and sustained. The future of infrastructure will depend on who is shaping it.
The challenge is not only talent.
It is visibility, progression
and participation.
BuildHerThon exists to increase women’s visibility, influence and participation across the built environment in ways that are practical, visible and sustained.
It connects leadership to real work, ensuring expertise is applied to meaningful challenges and seen in action.
This is about better outcomes, not symbolic progress.
Better innovation depends on broader perspectives, stronger collaboration and more connected leadership.
When women are visible in leadership, infrastructure moves from symbolic participation to meaningful contribution.
How the
Platform Works
BuildHerThon operates as a connected platform made up of three core layers.
Together, these layers create a system where leadership flows, knowledge is shared and impact builds over time.
It is not only about what we build, but how we build, who is seen leading, and who the future is built for.
Real world infrastructure challenges delivered in collaboration with partners, where leadership is visible in practice and outcomes are shaped on the ground.
Projects
Advisory groups of women leaders from across the global infrastructure ecosystem who provide guidance, challenge and expertise as projects develop.
Leadership
Collaboration
A curated member network connecting women leaders, emerging talent and students across the built environment through structured mentorship, shared insight and real industry context, supporting progression, capability and future workforce development.
Skills
Exchange
Through BuildHerThon, Trimble is shaping how the built environment is designed, delivered and managed.
The platform brings together technology, data and engineering expertise with industry collaboration to enable more connected, effective infrastructure outcomes.
It also signals a long-term focus on the future workforce of the industry, creating clearer pathways for talent development, leadership visibility and participation at every level. BuildHerThon is one of the ways this is put into practice.
Making the future of infrastructure visible in real-world contexts
BuildHerThon is designed as a global platform.
The first project is already underway, with the model designed to expand across geographies, partners and infrastructure challenges over time.
Each project contributes to a wider system of knowledge, leadership and collaboration that can be applied, adapted and strengthened as the platform expands.
The ambition is not to deliver a single initiative, but to build a repeatable model that can influence how infrastructure is shaped globally.
BuildHerThon brings together organisations, leaders and partners committed to shaping a stronger future for the built environment.
Projects are delivered through collaboration between technology, engineering expertise, local knowledge and leadership insight, ensuring that each initiative is grounded, credible and capable of long-term impact.
Explore the projects