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Engineering Matters

Five times winner of the Publisher Podcast Awards, including Best Technology Podcast, Engineering Matters celebrates the work of engineers who use ingenuity, practicality, science, theory and determination to build a better world. In the UK alone 5.7million people work in engineering related enterprises from manufacturing and agriculture to construction and transportation. Their work ensures that the country has sustainable power supplies, better connectivity between cities, increasing efficiency in production processes; advanced manufacturing methods; and is embracing the digital transformations that include virtual modelling of our environment, and development of intelligent machines. Our episodes will examine the vital work of engineers...

#282 Spinning up the renewables revolution: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Gold Champion — Dumarey

25 mins; July 04, 2024

#281 A rocket in the high street: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Inclusion Gold Champion — Space for Everyone

28 mins; June 27, 2024

#280 Measuring carbon in materials and projects: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Net Zero Champion — BCIS Built Environment Carbon Database

28 mins; June 20, 2024

#279 Intersection, Identity, and Engineering

44 mins; June 13, 2024

#278 Capturing carbon with concrete: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Innovation Gold Champion Seratech

26 mins; June 06, 2024

#277 The Race to Net Zero – Innovation at Pace

0 secs; May 30, 2024

#276 A Deep Understanding of the Ground Beneath Our Feet

28 mins; May 23, 2024

#275 Serving Countries to Serving Communities

29 mins; May 16, 2024

#274 Seeing the Future of a City

28 mins; May 09, 2024

#273 The Core Technologies of a New Power System

31 mins; May 02, 2024

#272 Designing Dinorwig: Inside Electric Mountain

41 mins; April 25, 2024

#271 Pumped Storage: Australia tackles Intermittency

20 mins; April 18, 2024

#270 A Blueprint for Low Carbon Roads

29 mins; April 11, 2024

#269 The Pipeline to Net Zero

41 mins; April 04, 2024

Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 5: How to Swim in a Sea of Data

28 mins; March 28, 2024

Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 4: Being Safe and Inclusive Every Step of the Way

28 mins; March 28, 2024

Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 3: Reducing and Reusing

30 mins; March 28, 2024

Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 2: The Blueprint and the Real Thing

28 mins; March 28, 2024

Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 1: Building a Learning Legacy

29 mins; March 28, 2024

#268 Mastering Time: The Challenge of Time Synchronisation

39 mins; March 21, 2024

#267 AI and Humanity, with Darren Martin

47 mins; March 14, 2024

#266 Building Communities Together

48 mins; March 12, 2024

#265 Tunnelling Innovation: Inventing the Bentonite Shield

36 mins; March 07, 2024

#264 Finding Career Pathways into Social Value

31 mins; February 29, 2024

#263 The Tipping Point

32 mins; February 22, 2024

#262 The Engineering Matters Awards – Net Zero, part 3

31 mins; February 17, 2024

#261 The Engineering Matters Awards – Net Zero, part 2

27 mins; February 16, 2024

#260 The Engineering Matters Awards – Net Zero, part 1

26 mins; February 15, 2024

#259 The Engineering Matters Awards – Innovation, part 3

31 mins; February 14, 2024

#258 The Engineering Matters Awards – Innovation, part 2

21 mins; February 13, 2024

#257 The Engineering Matters Awards – Innovation, part 1

18 mins; February 12, 2024

#256 The Engineering Matters Awards – Environment

21 mins; February 10, 2024

#255 The Engineering Matters Awards – Sustainability, part 2

24 mins; February 09, 2024

#254 The Engineering Matters Awards – Sustainability

21 mins; February 08, 2024

#253 The Engineering Matters Awards – Community

20 mins; February 07, 2024

#252 The Engineering Matters Awards – Health and Safety

17 mins; February 06, 2024

#251 The Engineering Matters Awards – Diversity and Inclusion

25 mins; February 05, 2024

#250 The Observational Method – Engineering’s Best Kept Secret

35 mins; February 01, 2024

#249 The Cables That Bind Our World Together

0 secs; January 25, 2024

#248 Revisited: Secrets of the Hoover Dam

0 secs; January 18, 2024

#247 Saving Structures with Cathodic Protection

0 secs; January 11, 2024

#246 Tiny Robots, Big Moves: The Basics of Microrobot Actuation

0 secs; January 04, 2024

#245 Transparent Concrete

0 secs; December 21, 2023

#244 Water Quality: Navigating Challenges in UK’s Wild Waters

0 secs; December 14, 2023

#243 Virtual Reality: A New Vision for Construction

0 secs; December 07, 2023

SHORT: Recycling, Without Waste

0 secs; December 05, 2023

#242 Partnerships and Resilience

35 mins; November 30, 2023

#241 Wind, Waves and Wildlife: Navigating Biodiversity in Offshore Wind

30 mins; November 22, 2023

#240 Saving Homes, Saving the Planet

33 mins; November 15, 2023

#239 The resilience mindset, on Planet Beyond

44 mins; November 08, 2023

#238 A Greener More Pleasant Land

48 mins; November 02, 2023

#237 Climbing the Ladder to Gender Equality

24 mins; October 26, 2023

SHORT: Junade Ali – The Youngest Fellow at the IET

13 mins; October 24, 2023

#236 RAAC: The Misunderstood Material?

24 mins; October 19, 2023

#235 Ffestiniog: 60 Years of Pioneering Storage

36 mins; October 12, 2023

Introducing: Connected Places

39 mins; October 10, 2023

#234 Microreactors: From the Moon, to the ends of the Earth

34 mins; October 05, 2023

#233 Rebuilding the Dawlish Sea Wall

35 mins; September 28, 2023

#232 Future of Technology and Engineering

25 mins; September 21, 2023

#231 Powering Net Zero

36 mins; September 14, 2023

#230 National Security’s New Frontlines

42 mins; September 07, 2023

#229 Chip Manufacturing and the World’s Most Complex Machine

31 mins; August 31, 2023

#228 Hydrogen, and the road to Net Zero building materials

41 mins; August 24, 2023

#227 Electrifying the Skies: Harbour Air’s Green Revolution

30 mins; August 17, 2023

#226 Gaming: A New Engine for Engagement

36 mins; August 10, 2023

#225 Saudi Arabia: Preserving the past, building the future

36 mins; August 03, 2023

#224 Power lines, helicopters, and data analysis

33 mins; July 27, 2023

Data and collaboration, operations and maintenance

27 mins; July 20, 2023

#222 Revisited: The future of 3D printing

27 mins; July 13, 2023

#221 Turning plants into plastics

27 mins; July 06, 2023

#220 The End of the Diesel Generator?

0 secs; June 29, 2023

#219 Syria: Rising from the rubble

55 mins; June 22, 2023

Episode Twelve, How to build a Railway: Leaving a legacy

33 mins; June 15, 2023

Episode Eleven, How to build a Railway: Safe at Heart

38 mins; June 15, 2023

Episode Ten, How to build a Railway: Keeping things clean – our journey to net zero

39 mins; June 15, 2023

Episode Nine, How to build a Railway: From Track to The Cloud – the Layers of Railway

37 mins; June 15, 2023

Episode Eight, How to build a Railway: Our next stop is…

40 mins; June 15, 2023

Episode Seven, How to build a Railway: Building Bridges

31 mins; June 15, 2023

Episode Six, How to build a Railway: Going underground

38 mins; June 15, 2023

Episode Five, How to build a Railway: Opportunity for Innovation

35 mins; June 15, 2023

Episode Four, How to build a Railway: Creating the Green Corridor

0 secs; June 15, 2023

Episode Three, How to build a Railway: Preparing the ground

36 mins; June 15, 2023

Episode Two, How to build a Railway: Unearthing History

34 mins; June 15, 2023

Episode One, How to build a Railway: The What and the Why of HS2

42 mins; June 15, 2023

#218 Origin stories

46 mins; June 08, 2023

#217 Managing the Energy Transition

29 mins; June 01, 2023

#216 Accelerating Offshore Wind Construction

40 mins; May 25, 2023

#215 Waste Goes Digital

35 mins; May 18, 2023

#214 Delivering a Megaproject

29 mins; May 11, 2023

#213 Revisited: Positioning Satellites in New Space

39 mins; May 04, 2023

#212 Turning beer green

32 mins; April 27, 2023

#211 Rewilding the UK

22 mins; April 20, 2023

#210 Revisited: Return of the Fatbergs

29 mins; April 13, 2023

#209 Asset Management, Resilience, and Climate Change

37 mins; April 06, 2023

#208 Counting Carbon Costs in the Built Environment

26 mins; March 30, 2023

#207 Revolution in the North Sea

35 mins; March 23, 2023

#206 The Giant Props of Gothenburg

23 mins; March 16, 2023

#205 The Green, Green, Shores of Home

35 mins; March 09, 2023

Introducing: How to Build a Railway

41 mins; March 02, 2023

#204 Creating Green Airports of the Future

19 mins; March 02, 2023

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