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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...

#109 Spiders Versus Plastic

21 mins; May 27, 2021

#108 Antarctica: Building Rothera Wharf

40 mins; May 20, 2021

#107 Africa: Connecting a Continent

26 mins; May 13, 2021

#106 A Beginner’s Guide to Social Value

35 mins; May 06, 2021

#105 Solar Grazing at Shaker Village

30 mins; April 29, 2021

#104 Solving Rail’s Hidden Hazard

25 mins; April 22, 2021

#103 A Canadian Blueprint for Net Zero

30 mins; April 15, 2021

#102 Crushing Climate Change

13 mins; April 08, 2021

#101 Powering and Protecting Scottish Heritage

25 mins; April 01, 2021

#100 Megaprojects (Part 3): Learning from Experience

27 mins; March 30, 2021

#100 Megaprojects (Part 2): How to Deliver?

23 mins; March 30, 2021

#100 Megaprojects (Part 1): What Makes a Megaproject?

35 mins; March 30, 2021

#99 Urbanisation: Infrastructure for Growing Cities

34 mins; March 25, 2021

#98 The Construction Playground

26 mins; March 18, 2021

#97 The Gateway to Indonesia

18 mins; March 11, 2021

#97 (Indonesian) Bandara Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan

20 mins; March 10, 2021

#96 Fusion: Britain Builds a Star

31 mins; March 04, 2021

#95 Saving Oceans with Science

38 mins; February 25, 2021

#94 Barriers to Data Rich Design

21 mins; February 18, 2021

#93 Tomatoes and the Road to Net Zero

28 mins; February 11, 2021

#92 The Most Flooded Town In England

34 mins; February 03, 2021

#92 The Most Flooded Town in England

34 mins; February 03, 2021

#91 Global Risks and Shapeshifting Infrastructure

27 mins; January 28, 2021

#90 The New Way to Plan a City

35 mins; January 21, 2021

#89 Blue Lanes in the Black Country

23 mins; January 14, 2021

#88 Engineering Trees

33 mins; January 07, 2021

#87 So That Was 2020

38 mins; December 29, 2020

#86 Enterprise Delivery: A Model for Recovery

21 mins; December 22, 2020

#85 Concrete’s Role in the Climate War

27 mins; December 17, 2020

#84 Asphalt of the Future

32 mins; December 15, 2020

#83 Digitisation and the road to diversity

26 mins; December 10, 2020

#82 Securing the Shugborough Tunnel

30 mins; December 08, 2020

#81 Zen and the Art of Programme Management

27 mins; December 03, 2020

#80 Covid 19: Construction Copes with the Pandemic

22 mins; November 26, 2020

#79 Rebuilding Zandvoort’s Rollercoaster Racetrack

37 mins; November 19, 2020

#78 Reinventing invention

29 mins; November 12, 2020

#77 Floating Turbines: Offshore Wind’s Game Changer

31 mins; November 05, 2020

#76 Building with Biomaterials

33 mins; October 29, 2020

#75 Last Howl of the Vulcan

23 mins; October 22, 2020

#74 Weaving a New Data Fabric for Infrastructure

31 mins; October 15, 2020

#73 How to Build a Digital Twin

29 mins; October 08, 2020

#72 Seeing the Himalayas: Kickstarting Net Zero

30 mins; October 01, 2020

#71 Stewards of the Soil

26 mins; September 24, 2020

#70 On Track for a Rail Revolution

38 mins; September 17, 2020

#69 Artificial Intelligence in Infrastructure

20 mins; September 10, 2020

#68 The Future of Design

34 mins; September 03, 2020

#67 The Future is Remote and Autonomous

35 mins; August 27, 2020

#66 Fever Screening in Airports

27 mins; August 20, 2020

#65 Every Little Helps

25 mins; August 13, 2020

#64 EDAROTH

29 mins; August 06, 2020

#63 Nine Days to Build a Hospital

28 mins; July 30, 2020

#62 The Washing Machine Project

25 mins; July 23, 2020

#61 Countdown to British launch

23 mins; July 16, 2020

#60 Covid 19: Creating safer spaces

23 mins; July 02, 2020

#59 Empowering Ethical Engineering

37 mins; June 25, 2020

#58 Construction declares climate emergency

21 mins; June 11, 2020

#57 Printing versus the pandemic: COVID 19

29 mins; May 28, 2020

#56 The Biodiversity Emergency

27 mins; May 14, 2020

#55 Saving Structures with Satellites

41 mins; April 30, 2020

#54 Keith Bannerman: A life underground

25 mins; April 17, 2020

#53 Technology vs biology: fighting COVID 19

27 mins; April 03, 2020

#52 Tunnelling Podcast: Propping up Luton Airport’s new rail link

50 mins; March 27, 2020

#51 Covid 19: Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

20 mins; March 20, 2020

#50 Dealing with Nuclear Waste

19 mins; March 13, 2020

#49 Uncharted waters: Flooding and drought

35 mins; March 05, 2020

#48 Paving the way in pothole prevention

31 mins; February 27, 2020

#47 Breathalysing Whales: Drones Revisited

29 mins; February 20, 2020

#46 Metro stations: The gateway to the city

50 mins; February 13, 2020

#45 Offshore Wind, Part 2 : Foundations for the Future

33 mins; February 06, 2020

#44 Offshore Wind, Part 1: Becoming a World Leader

30 mins; January 30, 2020

#43 Virtual Reality: transforming design

39 mins; January 23, 2020

#42 Surviving a tunnel fire

52 mins; January 16, 2020

#41 Crunch Time for Net Zero

25 mins; January 09, 2020

#40 Becoming a Role Model: Ying Wan Loh

18 mins; December 23, 2019

#39 Heathrow: Leading the digital charge

29 mins; December 19, 2019

#38 Temporary Heroes: Construction’s Unseen Infrastructure

24 mins; December 12, 2019

#37 Solving the Productivity Puzzle

28 mins; November 27, 2019

#36 The Calculator that Could Save the World

27 mins; November 21, 2019

#35 The Quantum Enabler: Professor Sir Peter Knight

27 mins; November 06, 2019

#34 Crisis Shelter for Mass Displacement

35 mins; October 31, 2019

#33 Future Factories: Driving forward industry 4.0

22 mins; October 17, 2019

#32 The untold story of Eiffel and his Tower

26 mins; October 03, 2019

#31 Creating a National Digital Twin

26 mins; September 19, 2019

#30 Interviewing Dad: Atkins President Philip Hoare

34 mins; September 05, 2019

#29 Innovations in Renewable Energy: Lorna Bennet

36 mins; August 22, 2019

#28 Building for Biodiversity

23 mins; August 08, 2019

#27 Recycling Plastic into Roads

17 mins; July 26, 2019

#26 Saving Rossington

43 mins; July 16, 2019

#25 Return of the Fatbergs

28 mins; June 27, 2019

#24 Unleash the Hydrogen Potential

31 mins; June 13, 2019

#23 Becoming an astronaut: Sophie Harker

34 mins; May 30, 2019

#22 Electric Excavators: Cities cut carbon in construction

20 mins; May 21, 2019

#21 Electric Aviation: Meeting demand for low emission flight

16 mins; May 09, 2019

#20 Electric Vehicles: Lessons from world leading Norway

34 mins; May 03, 2019

#19 Future of 3D Printing

26 mins; April 18, 2019

#18 Cocoa Power

26 mins; April 04, 2019

#17 Acting on climate change

26 mins; March 21, 2019

#16 Designing green buildings

21 mins; March 08, 2019

#15 Engineering Elephants: Brittany Harris

44 mins; February 22, 2019

#14 The Bridge Man: Dr Robin Sham

48 mins; February 07, 2019

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