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#323 Engineers Deliver Impact: The Engineering Matters Awards 2025
Engineers from around the world gathered at the Postal Museum in London for the Engineering Matters Awards 2025, presented in partnership with the Institution of
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#312 Lifting Each Other Up — Engineering Matters Awards 2025 shortlist, People
What do engineers build? Often, the answer will be bridges and dams, apartment blocks and factories. But in everything they do, engineers are also helping
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#293 Cleaning clothes and changing lives: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Community Gold Champion — The Washing Machine Project
For 70% of the world’s population, doing the laundry means hours of difficult manual washing. It was this fact that led Nav Sawhney to leave
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Bonus: Engineering a Low Carbon Paris Olympics
What does it take to win at the Olympics? For Pierre Engel, chief engineer at ArcelorMittal, victory took years of experience, precision, and collaboration. He
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#284 Queensway Tunnel: The Miracle Under the Mersey
When the Queensway Tunnel opened on 18th July 1934 King George V declared it a miracle. At 3.4km long and with a 13.4m internal diameter
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#272 Designing Dinorwig: Inside Electric Mountain
In late 1973 the UK’s Central Electricity Generating Board gained parliamentary approval to build the largest and most difficult pumped storage hydroelectric power station in
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#237 Climbing the Ladder to Gender Equality
Katie Kelleher, is a trailblazer in the construction industry. Her incredible story, from a career in recruitment to becoming a crane operator, defies gender stereotypes
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#231 Powering Net Zero
Governments and businesses around the world have made commitments to achieve Net Zero by the middle of the century. This will require engineering innovation, and
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#229 Chip Manufacturing and the World’s Most Complex Machine
Ever since the first computer chip was created the size of transistors on chips has been getting smaller and smaller. Gordon Moore, who went on
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#221 Turning plants into plastics
The world consumes 4.25 billion tonnes of oil every year. Over half of the oil drilled out of the ground goes towards transport, but the
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#220 The End of the Diesel Generator?
Buildings and the construction industry account for 39% of global carbon emissions: 28% from materials and operational emissions, and 11% from construction operations. One of
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#218 Origin stories
Engineering Matters is celebrating its fifth anniversary this week. Podcast founders Bernadette Ballantyne and Jon Young, along with the rest of the Engineering Matters team,