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#100 Megaprojects (Part 1): What Makes a Megaproject?
Megaprojects are among the most complex and challenging of society’s undertakings. Each is grand is scope and due to the scale, none are ever built
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#99 Urbanisation: Infrastructure for Growing Cities
Today the world holds 33 megacities, cities that are home to over 10 million people. As these sprawling urban centres become more crowded than ever before
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#98 The Construction Playground
As projects grow ever more complex, with tighter delivery demands placed on the entire supply chain, a baseline of digitalisation has been essential for the
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#97 The Gateway to Indonesia
To alleviate the burden on its largest city Jakarta, Indonesia is going to move its capital more than 1,000km from the densely populated island of
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#96 Fusion: Britain Builds a Star
In this episode we are looking at a project being run by the UK Atomic Energy Authority which aims to build a prototype fusion power
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#95 Saving Oceans with Science
The world’s oceans are in crisis. Plastic pollution, rising sea levels, warmer waters and chemical changes are degrading ocean systems and the world is at
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#94 Barriers to Data Rich Design
Construction has not always recognised the value of using data from past projects to deliver better results in the present. It often finds itself starting
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#93 Tomatoes and the Road to Net Zero
Something remarkable is happening in East Anglia. Waste heat from sewage treatment is being pumped into two enormous greenhouses creating low carbon heat for growing
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#92 The Most Flooded Town In England
In this episode we partnered with WSP to tell the story of Looe, a fishing port in Cornwall. The small town has the dubious accolade
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#91 Global Risks and Shapeshifting Infrastructure
With the weight of the built environment exceeding that of the total biomass for the first time, the human impact on the planet has passed
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#90 The New Way to Plan a City
The data quality in the planning and development sector is appalling. Whether supplied in this form accidentally, negligently, or recklessly does not matter – much
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#89 Blue Lanes in the Black Country
A revolution is happening in the UK, and it is happening quietly. Inspired by the Copenhagen Bicycle Account, Bike Life is the biggest assessment of