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#110 London: Boosting Biodiversity
London is the world’s first national park city, with about 50% green coverage of its surface area. This is a legacy of the public and
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#109 Spiders Versus Plastic
For millions of years spiders have been spinning naturally occurring proteins into an incredibly strong and durable silk. By studying the anatomy of these arachnids,
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#108 Antarctica: Building Rothera Wharf
Since the end of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, humanity has focused its activities in the southern continent on science and research. To do
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#107 Africa: Connecting a Continent
Preparation is currently underway for installation of one of the world’s longest fibre optic communications cables. Survey vessels are circumnavigating the entire coast of Africa
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#106 A Beginner’s Guide to Social Value
Why do we build? Why develop society? And who reaps the benefit? In this episode we look at the new interest the construction industry is
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#105 Solar Grazing at Shaker Village
In a field a few miles southwest of the city of Lexington in Kentucky, a sheep is quietly grazing in the shade. This is a
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#104 Solving Rail’s Hidden Hazard
In 2019/20 an estimated 693,000 workers in Great Britain sustained a non-fatal injury at work in Great Britain. The figure, which comes from the Office
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#103 A Canadian Blueprint for Net Zero
What is Net Zero? And how can we get there? Can we mitigate the damage of three centuries of fossil fuel-powered industrialisation, with three decades
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#102 Crushing Climate Change
Every two years the Peak District hosts ‘Hillhead’ in a disused quarry. It is the largest event for the Quarrying, Construction and Recycling industries. It
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#101 Powering and Protecting Scottish Heritage
Along the west coast of Scotland lies a chain of island communities where fishing and farming have been a way of life for thousands of
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#100 Megaprojects (Part 3): Learning from Experience
This is the third and final episode of our three-part special looking at the delivery of megaprojects. In this episode we examine the lessons learned
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#100 Megaprojects (Part 2): How to Deliver?
For the 100th episode of Engineering Matters we bring you this three-part special looking at the delivery of a megaproject. In this second episode, we