Environmental
#88 Engineering Trees
It is tree planting season in the UK. With their amazing carbon storage ability, flood alleviation capacity and biodiversity boosting potential, trees are fast becoming
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#87 So That Was 2020
Welcome to the very last Engineering Matters of 2020! In this episode we go back to some of the biggest stories that we covered over
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#86 Enterprise Delivery: A Model for Recovery
With a £100bn capital spending plan, the biggest ever investment in new transport infrastructure and a ten-point plan for climate change, the UK is determined
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#85 Concrete’s Role in the Climate War
Contributing around 8% of global climate emissions, concrete is a major source of carbon. It is also essential, and no major project is feasible without
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#84 Asphalt of the Future
Have you ever walked past a newly surfaced road, perhaps around the corner from your house… and wondered when it will next be resurfaced? Side
Digital
#83 Digitisation and the road to diversity
In this episode we look at how the demands of the industry are becoming increasingly diverse, resulting in a similar change in the people carrying
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#82 Securing the Shugborough Tunnel
Set in the West Midlands county of Staffordshire is a former Royal Forest called Cannock Chase. It is part misty, secluded woodland and part undulating
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#81 Zen and the Art of Programme Management
The adoption of healthy or unhealthy behaviours at project reviews can have an enormous impact on the overall project and even the wider industry. Going
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#80 Covid 19: Construction Copes with the Pandemic
It is by now a topic that sadly needs little introduction. It has impacted everyone in the last year. Changed lives and livelihoods, overturned entire
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#79 Rebuilding Zandvoort’s Rollercoaster Racetrack
In this episode we look at the Circuit Zandvoort, the iconic post-WW2 racetrack in the Netherlands. Beloved by fans of all flavours of motorsport, it
Digital
#78 Reinventing invention
A revolution is approaching manufacturing, one that will see costs and time to market cut by as much as 50%. The digitalisation of engineering will
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#77 Floating Turbines: Offshore Wind’s Game Changer
Until a few years ago the offshore wind industry was constrained by the seabed characteristics of countries seeking to harness the generating capacity of the