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#226 Gaming: A New Engine for Engagement
What can an engineer or town planner learn from a computer game Viking? In this episode, we look at how one design team is using
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#225 Saudi Arabia: Preserving the past, building the future
Saudi Arabia has set out on a journey. This historic land is today home to a young country: a quarter of the population are under
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#224 Power lines, helicopters, and data analysis
Power companies like National Grid Electricity Distribution, have used helicopters to monitor power lines for decades. Once, an inspector would check each component visually from
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#223 Data and collaboration, operations and maintenance
The operations and maintenance (O&M) sector has changed significantly since the inception of the 3P, or public private partnership, model in the 1990s. Once, these
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#222 Revisited: The future of 3D printing
In episode #221, Engineering Matters looked at a new way of manufacturing feedstocks for plastics. This approach will eliminate the use for oil products, instead
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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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#219 Syria: Rising from the rubble
Can engineers help to build peace? Can the solutions engineers develop in places of conflict, contribute to the development of low carbon? They can. And
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Episode Twelve, How to build a Railway: Leaving a legacy
How to Build a Railway is a twelve-part podcast series exploring the story behind the construction of the UK’s new high speed rail line. From
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Episode Eleven, How to build a Railway: Safe at Heart
How to Build a Railway is a twelve-part podcast series exploring the story behind the construction of the UK’s new high speed rail line. With
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Episode Ten, How to build a Railway: Keeping things clean – our journey to net zero
How to Build a Railway is a twelve-part podcast series exploring the story behind the construction of the UK’s new high speed rail line. Climate
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Episode Nine, How to build a Railway: From Track to The Cloud – the Layers of Railway
How to Build a Railway is a twelve-part podcast series exploring the story behind the construction of the UK’s new high speed rail line. In