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#122 Decarbonisation: Growing Roads on Trees
In this episode we look at how a new plant-based bitumen will be incorporated into asphalt mixtures currently being developed. The hope is that this
Environmental
#121 Batteries: The Lithium-Silicon Age
After a decade of growth, there were 10 million electric cars on the world’s roads by the end of 2020. This growth trend is set
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#120 Recycled Plastic: The Canadian Potential
In 2019, Justin Trudeau declared war on plastic waste. And single-use plastics were listed as a toxic material in Canada in May of this year.
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#119 The Grange: Saving Time, Saving Lives
As COVID-19 rampaged across the UK in 2020, society shut down and hospitals reached breaking point. For engineers building The Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran,
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#118 Gateway: The Lunar Space Station
The last time a person walked on the moon was 14 December 1972. Almost 50 years ago. Since then, human operations have been confined to
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#117 How Sails Could Save Shipping
The first boats that harnessed the wind to skip over the waves may have been built 8,000 years ago. Several hundred years later, the earliest
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#116 Climate Change: Islands on the Frontline
Island states are at the forefront of climate change. Rising sea levels mean more coastal erosion, overtopping of defences and salinification of land. More frequent
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#115 The Circular Road
In this episode we explain how one of the world’s biggest problems – plastic waste can be reused in state of the art, energy-efficient road-building
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#114 Engineering with Dogs
Ecologists on infrastructure projects have some new team members: Conservation dogs. Their superior olfactory systems mean that they can sniff out a plethora of protected
Environmental
#113 Food Waste: Making a Net Zero Jet Fuel
Every year 1.3 billion tonnes of food are wasted. The waste occurs all through the supply chain, from the farm itself, all the way to
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#112 Hagerbach: The Bat Cave of Tunnelling
Every good superhero universe has its origins story. Hagerbach’s begins with Rudolf Amberg, looking to innovate and find new efficiency savings for his iron mine.
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#111 Machine Learning: Construction’s Future
When people think of digital tools to help with engineering problems, they usually think of a 3D model or a computerised image, representing something that