Digital
#340 Diving Deep into Electric Machinery
Electrification of construction equipment is an ongoing and necessary part of the global effort to reduce carbon emissions and restrict global warming. Sixty years ago,
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#339 Integrated Contracts and Innovative Delivery
On two major road projects in the UK work was completed on time and under budget. But not every project can claim such success. Defects,
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#338 Bio-Inspired Innovation & Systemic Sustainability
Nature has long served as a blueprint for engineering breakthroughs from the kingfisher-inspired design of Japan’s Bullet Train to termite mounds that inform energy-efficient buildings.
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#337 Breaking Barriers to STEM with Lightyear Foundation – Engineering Matters Awards winners
In this episode, we spotlight the remarkable work of the Lightyear Foundation, the winner of the Engineering Matters Awards 2025 Gold Champion for Diversity and
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#336 Gravity-Powered Heavy Haul – Engineering Matters Awards winners
At a quarry in Turkey, heavy haul trucks are carrying hundreds of tonnes of materials, with no external power. It’s not quite perpetual motion, but
Digital
#335 Monitoring Methane: The Tech Behind the Tech – Engineering Matters Awards winners
LongPath Technologies has taken Nobel-winning discoveries, and applied them to a key cause of climate change: methane leaks from oil and gas facilities. The sector
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#334 Digital Construction’s Past, Present and Future
In 2016 management consultants McKinsey released a report that reverberated around the construction and engineering sectors. This sector, the report said, was consistently delivering projects
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#333 Agents of Change – AI in Industry
Generative AI has swept across our society. In every app, up it pops, eager to offer a helping hand. The opportunity to talk to computer
Build
#332 The Future of Airports Around the World
Airports are at the forefront of a global transformation, rethinking their role not just as transport hubs but as sustainable, connected cities of the future.
Build
#331 Life Extension for Infrastructure
In the second half of the 20th Century, the world was transformed through infrastructure construction. New roads and railways, levees and power lines, delivered unprecedented
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#330 A Village Full of Maths Tutors – Engineering Matters Awards’ winners
Helping the next generation achieve their full potential doesn’t just take commitment from their parents or carers, or from professionals like teachers. It takes, as
Environmental
#329 Scaling Low Carbon Innovation – Engineering Matters Awards’ winners
Ben Gibbons and his colleagues at Circular11 are developing ways to add value to hard-to-recycle light plastics. They take packaging, and turn it into a