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#371 Revisited: Place is the Space for Growth
How should local and regional leaders encourage investment in their communities? Around the world, cities struggle with a legacy of industrial decline. In England, devolution
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#369 Health & Safety Champion – Engineering Matters Awards
In this Engineering Matters Awards episode, we celebrate the winners of the Health & Safety Champion category, which recognises engineers who are changing how we
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#357c Well-Grounded Decisions: Construction and Operations
A wise asset owner builds on solid ground. Unless ground risks are clearly identified, projects can easily be delayed or delivered over budget. Some risks
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#347 Revisited: The Pipeline to Net Zero
Last week, at the end of September 2025, a study by Regen, commissioned by the MCS Foundation, found that biomethane had a limited capacity to
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#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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#269 The Pipeline to Net Zero
It will be just as important to upgrade pipeline networks for the energy transition, as it is the electric grid. These will carry carbon dioxide
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#247 Saving Structures with Cathodic Protection
In this podcast we go back in time to the invention of cathodic protection 200 years ago by President of the Royal Society Sir Humphry
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#214 Delivering a Megaproject
When a major public infrastructure project is announced often a brand new organisation is set up that is tasked with delivering the project. These organisations
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100 UK projects receive £2.1 billion in funding
Over 100 projects across the UK will share a combined £2.1 billion in government funding from the levelling up fund after the second round of
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Slowing the collective carbon clock
Partner: Mott MacDonald In 1958, scientists at Mauna Loa Observatory took their first measure of atmospheric carbon concentrations, which stood at 315 parts per million
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#193 Carbon Crunch (Part 2): Resilience in a Changing World
This year saw infrastructure resilience included in the Carbon Crunch programme for the first time. It is recognition that our infrastructure is being exposed to
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#193 Carbon Crunch (Part 1): The Decarbonisation Debate
It has been nearly 10 years since the world first recorded atmospheric carbon above 400 parts per million. That year, 2013, also marked the first