#374 Net Zero Champion – Engineering Matters Awards
In this Engineering Matters Awards episode, we celebrate the winner of the Net Zero Champion category, which recognises projects, processes,...
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20 of 426 episodes#373 Lubricating the Lunar Frontier
Returning to the Moon is the next step, but staying there is the next leap. Abrasive and electrostatically-charged dust particles cling to e...
#372 Sustainability Champion – Engineering Matters Awards
In this Engineering Matters Awards episode, we celebrate the winner of the Sustainability Champion category, which recognises organisations...
#371 Revisited: Place is the Space for Growth
How should local and regional leaders encourage investment in their communities? Around the world, cities struggle with a legacy of industri...
#370 The Forgotten Arsenal of the Ocean: Clearing Dumped Munitions
At the end of the Second World War, millions of tonnes of unwanted explosives and weapons were disposed of at sea. For decades, these dumped...
#369 Health & Safety Champion – Engineering Matters Awards
In this Engineering Matters Awards episode, we celebrate the winners of the Health & Safety Champion category, which recognises engineers wh...
#368 Community Champion – Engineering Matters Awards
This episode is part of the Engineering Matters Awards series, recognising individuals and organisations making an outstanding contribution...
#367 Nature Based Solutions: The End of Grey Engineering
For decades, infrastructure design has relied on ‘grey’ engineering: concrete flood walls, steel structures and rigid systems designed to co...
#366 Diversity & Inclusion Champion – Engineering Matters Awards
In this special Engineering Matters Awards episode, we celebrate excellence across the industry, highlighting our Gold, Silver, and Bronze w...
#365 Making a Success in British Construction
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...
#364b Environment Champion – Engineering Matters Awards gold winner
In this episode, we tell the story of MERMAID from the Wildlife Conservation Society, this year’s Engineering Matters Awards Environment Gol...
#364a Environment Champion – Engineering Matters Awards shortlist
Around the world, engineers are working to protect the environment. In this episode, we introduce eight companies who are taking steps to sa...
#363 Uncrewed Vessels and Unprecedented Data
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...
#362 Revisited: Skyscrapers, Predicting The Future
The London skyline is undergoing perhaps its most significant transformation in decades as a new ‘vertical renaissance’ is sending tremors o...
#361 Revisited: Space – The Robotic Age
Humanity’s furthest ever journey into space has been delayed. Again. An interruption to the flow of helium forced NASA to scrap the revised...
#360 Systems Change: Thinking in Patterns
Systems thinking allows engineers to understand complex systems and the second-, third-, and nth-order effects of their interventions. It av...
#359k Transit-Oriented Communities in Toronto
Around the world, urban planners are seeking to deliver urban growth and increase access to city centres through the development of transit-...
#359j – Modern Vernacular in Saudi Arabia
In the 1970s, Saudi Arabia, buoyed by a surge in oil prices, embarked on an ambitious building programme. The country moved rapidly to devel...
#359i Stone as Structure
For facade specialists, stone is highly prized for its performance and character. The right choice of stone can anchor a building in its loc...
#359h Sustainability in Paris
Sustainability experts often use a hierarchy to help their thinking about interventions. The best way to limit your impact is to do nothing...