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#307 Giving the Gift of Engineering
For many of us, now is a season of giving. A well chosen gift can bring lasting joy. But it’s easy to get wrong. One
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#288 Counting carbon costs of the world’s infrastructure: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Net Zero Gold Champion – Whole Life Carbon Assessment, 2nd edition
We can only efficiently reduce those things that we can measure. The Whole Life Carbon Assessment standard, produced by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
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#286 AI In the Real World
With the launch of robot taxis, we are already seeing autonomously controlled devices operating alongside humans in the public realm. As AI improves it will
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Saudi Arabia: preserving the past, building the future
Saudi Arabia has set out on a journey. This historic land is today home to a young country: a quarter of the population are under
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22 Bishopsgate: a tower of its time
Partner: WSP in the UK Possibly the most famous prophet in history is Nostradamus. The French astrologer lived in the 16th century and wrote lengthy
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Architects Design Sustainable Martian City
Plans have been unveiled for a sustainable city to be built on Mars. Architectural firm ABIBOO has produced the designs for this proposed city in
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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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#76 Building with Biomaterials
In this episode we have partnered with Autodesk Construction Solutions to look at a new approach to housing construction in Kenya. We take a look
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#58 Construction declares climate emergency
Since mid-2019, over 900 architectural practices in the UK have made a declaration of climate and biodiversity emergency, acknowledging the extreme seriousness of our situation