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Three times winner of the Publisher Podcast Awards, including Best Technology Podcast, Engineering Matters celebrates the work of engineers who use ingenuity, practicality, science, theory a...
Greg Wilkes has seen the highs and lows of running a small business in the UK construction sector. From being talked into staying with his a...
In this episode, we tell the story of MERMAID from the Wildlife Conservation Society, this year’s Engineering Matters Awards Environment Gol...
Around the world, engineers are working to protect the environment. In this episode, we introduce eight companies who are taking steps to sa...
In its seventh Allocation Round the UK executed the largest offshore wind auction in European history, putting pen to paper on 8.4GW of new...
The London skyline is undergoing perhaps its most significant transformation in decades as a new ‘vertical renaissance’ is sending tremors o...
Humanity’s furthest ever journey into space has been delayed. Again. An interruption to the flow of helium forced NASA to scrap the revised...
Systems thinking allows engineers to understand complex systems and the second-, third-, and nth-order effects of their interventions. It av...
Around the world, urban planners are seeking to deliver urban growth and increase access to city centres through the development of transit-...
In the 1970s, Saudi Arabia, buoyed by a surge in oil prices, embarked on an ambitious building programme. The country moved rapidly to devel...
For facade specialists, stone is highly prized for its performance and character. The right choice of stone can anchor a building in its loc...
Sustainability experts often use a hierarchy to help their thinking about interventions. The best way to limit your impact is to do nothing...
Lifecycle carbon assessment – the process of monitoring the total carbon footprint of a structure from the first spade in the ground to demo...
Retrofitting is an instrumental step in reducing the carbon footprint of a city’s building stock. It also extends the life of a building and...
When you are designing a stadium for the World Cup, or any major sport, it’s vital to have a fan’s-eye view. For more than a century, the ar...
Nuclear power promises to provide energy when other sources can’t. But nuclear plants currently take a long time to build—often more than a...
At ITER, in France, scientists and engineers from around the world are working together to develop nuclear fusion at power plant scale. The...
There is a changing view of the environment among public sector clients in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia has ambitious goals like generating...
Lismore sits at the confluence of two rivers in New South Wales. Covering more than 1,300 square kilometres, it is home to more than 44,000...
Society needs to consider the impact of climate change on our cities because it is no longer a future challenge; it is a present reality. Ci...
Residents of tall buildings can face significant risks in the event of fire or structural failure. At Grenfell Tower in the UK, a fire in a...
A wise asset owner builds on solid ground. Unless ground risks are clearly identified, projects can easily be delayed or delivered over budg...
Without a clear understanding of ground conditions, unquantified risk can be transferred from project owner to lead contractors when a contr...
On any project, uncertainty creates risk. Decisions that are made without a good understanding of site conditions can result in overengineer...
Wastewater treatment is an overlooked lifesaver. While the medical advances of the last 100 years—penicillin, chemotherapy, and, more recent...
Green-grey engineering combines nature-based solutions with traditional civil engineering. It can be used in flood protection, with mangrove...
The infrastructure sector is adopting AI with enthusiasm. A new whitepaper from Bentley Systems, Pinsent Masons, Turner & Townsend, and Mott...
This week, the UK House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, or EAC, released a report on environmental sustainability and housing grow...
From blood pressure monitors and smart watches, to MRIs and step counters, many of us make tracking health metrics part of our daily routine...
Around the world, climate change and shifting alliances are opening up new theatres of geopolitical competition. In the Arctic, Canada must...
Dr Meganne Christian is a scientist and adventurer. In her research, she has studied the performance of novel materials including the use of...
The tragic fire at Grenfell Tower in west London demanded new ways of thinking about professionalism and ethics in the engineering sector. H...
In Europe, and around the world, renewable electricity generation is being built at pace. However, these sources of energy create a new chal...
Last week, at the end of September 2025, a study by Regen, commissioned by the MCS Foundation, found that biomethane had a limited capacity...
It’s a simple fact of chemistry that cement cannot be produced, without also producing carbon dioxide. But this does not mean that the secto...
When launching a satellite into orbit, getting the positioning right is of paramount importance. As humanity sends more satellites into spac...
When flooding happens, damage and disruption ripples out across assets and infrastructure. Private businesses and homeowners can insure them...
Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented the punch card as a means of inputting control data to one of the earliest automated technologies, the weaver...
The metaverse is often thought of as an alternative virtual space, a world separate from reality where we can hang out with avatars of our f...
Alan Lusty founded adi Group, a multidisciplinary engineering business supporting major manufacturers. He is part of a group that offers eng...
Electrification of construction equipment is an ongoing and necessary part of the global effort to reduce carbon emissions and restrict glob...
On two major road projects in the UK work was completed on time and under budget. But not every project can claim such success. Defects, del...
Nature has long served as a blueprint for engineering breakthroughs from the kingfisher-inspired design of Japan’s Bullet Train to termite m...
In this episode, we spotlight the remarkable work of the Lightyear Foundation, the winner of the Engineering Matters Awards 2025 Gold Champi...
At a quarry in Turkey, heavy haul trucks are carrying hundreds of tonnes of materials, with no external power. It’s not quite perpetual moti...
LongPath Technologies has taken Nobel-winning discoveries, and applied them to a key cause of climate change: methane leaks from oil and gas...
In 2016 management consultants McKinsey released a report that reverberated around the construction and engineering sectors. This sector, th...
Generative AI has swept across our society. In every app, up it pops, eager to offer a helping hand. The opportunity to talk to computer sys...
Airports are at the forefront of a global transformation, rethinking their role not just as transport hubs but as sustainable, connected cit...
In the second half of the 20th Century, the world was transformed through infrastructure construction. New roads and railways, levees and po...
Helping the next generation achieve their full potential doesn’t just take commitment from their parents or carers, or from professionals li...