Zawadi Mwambeyu

Graduate Structural Engineer at Ramboll UK Ltd, 2021 winner of the Women in Property National Student awards. Beacon Scholar who graduated in 2023.

Zawadi Mwambeyu was a Beacon Scholar who graduated in 2023 and is now a Graduate Structural Engineer at Ramboll UK Ltd, undertaking initial professional development towards chartership. She achieved a first-class honours MEng in Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol, and was awarded the Werthemier Memorial Prize for her 3-year contribution to the life of faculty and students as course representative.

Following her undergraduate research in regenerative materials and 4th year design project on Design for Manufacture, Assembly and Disassembly (DfMA-D), she joined Ramboll’s Buildings Technical Excellence network.

She has been a guest speaker at the WiP South-West awards 2022 and at the National Awards 2023. She is a member of several professional institutions. She was the 2021 National and South-West winner of the Women in Property (WiP) National Student awards.

At Bristol, she was East African Society President, secretary of the Civil Engineering Society (CivSoc) in her fourth year and Senior Peer Mentor for the 2022 first-year cohort. At CivSoc, she helped run the 7th annual Graduate-Undergraduate Recruitment Evening.

In her free time, she mentors university and secondary school students, travels locally and explores the Kenyan music scene.