- Date
- 03 November 2021
- Time
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Overview
The tenth presentation in a series of online talks by engineers and technicians who live and work with disability on a daily basis.
Luke Birkett is a very well qualified and experienced construction professional from a mixed construction background, who has worked for and progressed up through his career for a number of the top tier national, main contractors and housing developers and has excelled in his career at a reasonably young age.
Luke is currently the Managing Director of his newly established company "Future Homes Design and Build" which he is actively promoting as well as the positive promotion of "Dyslexia In Construction" which is the topic for discussion today.
Join us as Luke talks about his own experiences with it.
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