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#374 Net Zero Champion – Engineering Matters Awards
In this Engineering Matters Awards episode, we celebrate the winner of the Net Zero Champion category, which recognises projects, processes, and tools that make a
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#346 Scaling Carbon-Free Cement
It’s a simple fact of chemistry that cement cannot be produced, without also producing carbon dioxide. But this does not mean that the sector—and its
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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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#321 Circular Construction – Designing for Disassembly
We can reuse and retrofit buildings to extend their lifespans, and reduce their embodied carbon impact. But some structures may not be suitable for full
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#300 Bonus: Powering Net Zero
Governments and businesses around the world have made commitments to achieve Net Zero by the middle of the century. This will require engineering innovation, and
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#299d Highways UK Live – The Journey to Net Zero and Resilience
National Highways has adopted clear net zero targets: its own operations will be carbon free by 2030; those of contractors on its roads by 2040;
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#291 Making the Case for Cutting Carbon
Project managers have traditionally measured the viability of a project design or materials choice as a triangle, balancing cost, scope and performance. With the addition
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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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#245 Transparent Concrete
What would it mean to be able to look at a bag of concrete, and see its embodied carbon? That’s the goal of the new
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Operations and maintenance: The next step in partnership
Delivering major infrastructure projects is a complex and time-consuming endeavour that often spans several years, if not decades. However, the completion of a project is
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#216 Accelerating Offshore Wind Construction
The next decade will see an unprecedented level of offshore energy construction. In order to achieve the 2035 emissions targets adopted by many governments, the
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#212 Turning beer green
The brewing industry has become a testing ground for the energy transition. Many drinkers want to drink responsibly: not just to protect their own health,