Environmental
#157 Interconnectors: The Green Link to Ireland
Standing on the cliffs of Ireland’s west coast you can feel the reason that Ireland generates more than 35% of its electricity from wind power.
Build
#156 Social Value: How to get it Right
When it comes to adhering to standards, working within regulations, and ticking boxes, companies are pretty great. It’s how they are set up, and it
Environmental
#155 Coral and the Hunt for a Cure
Coral reefs are sometimes called the rainforests of the oceans and support an estimated 25% of all known marine species, but they, and the sponges
Build
#154 Falkirk Wheel: The Design Story
This is the story of a structure so unique that there is nothing like it in the entire world. The Falkirk Wheel in Scotland is
Build
SHORT: Engineering Waste
In partnership with Tabsal SCL, Engineering Matters speaks with Javier Saldise about how his Spanish company is taking waste wood and transforming it into structural
Environmental
#153 Recycling Carbon: Biofuels from Waste
What if we could take the waste that no one wants, the kind of waste that is shoved into landfill and turn it into sustainable
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#152 Crisis Shelter Revisited
As hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians flee their country which is under attack by Putin’s Russia, we find that the number of forcibly displaced people
Digital
#151 Electrification: the future of industry
In this week’s episode we will learn about the technologies that have driven the development of electrification for a variety of well-known industrial OEM brands.
Environmental
#150 Green Hydrogen: Creating the System
Green hydrogen, created from renewable energy resources, has been hailed as a panacea to decarbonisation of heat and fluctuation in natural gas prices. But the
Environmental
#149 Roads: Invention needs Ambition
In the UK in 2020, 80% of freight was moved by road and 90% of passenger miles were travelled by road. It is considered a
Build
#148 Skyscrapers: Predicting the Future
Predicting the future is difficult, every year would-be prophets fail to predict major events and over-eager journalists seize on the words of ancient mystics to
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#147 Flooding: Making Space for Water
In the summer of 2021 record rainfall overwhelmed river systems across Europe. People in the Limburg region of the Netherlands held their collective breath as