Environmental
#139 Offshore Wind: Scotland’s World Leader
At 4.1GW Berwick Bank is planning to become the largest offshore windfarm in the world. This is enough generating capacity to power Scotland’s homes twice
Digital
#128 Positioning Satellites in New Space
As the regions of space around Earth become increasingly crowded with new satellites, the most popular orbits of all are becoming hazardous. Beyond a point,
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#107 Africa: Connecting a Continent
Preparation is currently underway for installation of one of the world’s longest fibre optic communications cables. Survey vessels are circumnavigating the entire coast of Africa
Environmental
Saving Oceans with Science
Author: Bernadette Ballantyne Partner: Fugro On the 8th March 2014 one of the world’s greatest mysteries began to unfold. A mystery that has never been
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#99 Urbanisation: Infrastructure for Growing Cities
Today the world holds 33 megacities, cities that are home to over 10 million people. As these sprawling urban centres become more crowded than ever before
Digital
#95 Saving Oceans with Science
The world’s oceans are in crisis. Plastic pollution, rising sea levels, warmer waters and chemical changes are degrading ocean systems and the world is at
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On Track for a Rail Revolution
Author: Alex Conacher Supporter: Fugro The railway network in the UK is old and vast and home to the first public railway to use steam
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Offshore Wind: Foundations for the Future
Author: Bernadette Ballantyne Partner: Fugro The offshore wind industry is pushing to meet an enormous 40GW target over the next decade to build new wind
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#70 On Track for a Rail Revolution
The railway network in the UK is old and vast and home to the first public railway to use steam locomotives in the world. The
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A Remote and Autonomous Future
Author: Bernadette Ballantyne Supporter: Fugro Deep down in the middle of the North Sea, senior inspection engineer Chris Ord is inspecting an oil platform. He
Digital
#67 The Future is Remote and Autonomous
Remotely operated vehicles, uncrewed surface vessels and ever-increasing autonomy are removing personnel from dangerous work offshore in the North Sea and elsewhere. Inspection of maritime
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Offshore Wind: Becoming a World Leader
It was the year 2000. The Y2K bug, which was predicted to create a software meltdown and bring global economies to a standstill, led to nothing more than a few minor temporary IT issues. JK Rowling’s fourth Harry Potter book “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” became the fastest selling novel of all time; a 24 year old Tiger Woods becomes the youngest ever golfer to win four grand slams; and American and Russian astronauts became the first ever inhabitants of the International Space Station.