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Engineering with Dogs
Ecologists on infrastructure projects have some new team members: Conservation dogs. Their superior olfactory systems mean that they can sniff out a plethora of protected
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#114 Engineering with Dogs
Ecologists on infrastructure projects have some new team members: Conservation dogs. Their superior olfactory systems mean that they can sniff out a plethora of protected
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A Beginner’s Guide to Social Value
Author: Alex Conacher Partner: Atkins Why do we construct projects? Why do we develop the built environment? Here we will explore something that is long
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#111 Machine Learning: Construction’s Future
When people think of digital tools to help with engineering problems, they usually think of a 3D model or a computerised image, representing something that
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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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#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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The New Way to Plan a City
Author: Alex Conacher Partner: Atkins On 11 December 1998, NASA launched its Mars Climate Orbiter. It was a robotic space probe intended to study the
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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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#72 Seeing the Himalayas: Kickstarting Net Zero
On a bright morning in April, people in the city of Jalandhar in the state of Punjab stood out in the streets and saw something
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#68 The Future of Design
Changes to the way we do design are coming; construction is languishing at the bottom of the productivity rankings, now below hunting and fishing. Decision-making
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#64 EDAROTH
Manchester – the city has been on the cutting edge since the birth of the industrial revolution. From John Dalton’s Atomic Theory in 1803, to
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Women Engineering a Better World
“At Engineering Matters we strive to ensure diversity and equality in our podcasts all year round. This means making sure that the work of women