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#284 Queensway Tunnel: The Miracle Under the Mersey
When the Queensway Tunnel opened on 18th July 1934 King George V declared it a miracle. At 3.4km long and with a 13.4m internal diameter
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#276 A Deep Understanding of the Ground Beneath Our Feet
Cone Penetration Testing is a conceptually simple technology first developed in the Netherlands almost a century ago, but is still a critical component in the
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#275 Serving Countries to Serving Communities
For any military operation the objectives of the mission are absolutely paramount. Failure is not an option. The team is motivated to achieve a common
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#272 Designing Dinorwig: Inside Electric Mountain
In late 1973 the UK’s Central Electricity Generating Board gained parliamentary approval to build the largest and most difficult pumped storage hydroelectric power station in
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#265 Tunnelling Innovation: Inventing the Bentonite Shield
Sixty years ago a civil engineer called John Bartlett of Mott, Hay & Anderson had a revolutionary idea. He noticed that bentonite clay could be
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#250 The Observational Method – Engineering’s Best Kept Secret
The use of “The Observational Method” could be one of the best kept secrets of the engineering world. Time and time again it has been
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#248 Revisited: Secrets of the Hoover Dam
Are there really bodies buried in the Hoover Dam? Was the hard hat really invented here in 1931? And why was it originally called Boulder
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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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#235 Ffestiniog: 60 Years of Pioneering Storage
Hidden in the mountainous peaks of Snowdonia’s National Park is a clean source of energy storage that has been supporting the UK’s electricity grid since
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#203 Revisited: Crisis Shelter for Mass Displacement
In light of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, this we are revisting the story of Nooraullah Kuchai. Noorullah is a civil engineer, a
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#198 Collaboration: The Net Zero Trilogy
Getting to net zero emissions requires a paradigm shift in the way that we think and in the way that we do business says Dr
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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