• To enable women in the construction industry to act as role models to school girls, female students and younger members of the construction professions.
• To enable women in the construction industry to show by example to school boys, male students and colleagues that women can function as competently as themselves in the construction professions.
• To raise awareness of women in the construction professions in order that they may be perceived as role models, through the media and published materials resources for use in schools.
• To arrange for women construction professionals to visit schools to assist them with projects and careers days.

The organisation was set up in 1990 and gained charitable status in 1992. The strength of the organisation lies in the commitment made by both teachers and construction industry professionals to developing projects for use in schools.

WARM has developed sound working relationships with other organisations in the field of education and links with the construction industry, locally, regionally and nationally.

• Arranging visits by professional women to schools for careers days or project work in schools
• Making available display boards showing women professionals at work in various construction professions for schools and careers days around the UK.
• Provided work shadowing placements for school pupils considering careers in construction,
• Placed young women on the CITB's Young Presenters' Course,
• Developed a school project to fit within the National Curriculum