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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
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#179 Trees: Escaping the Heat
In July 2022 the UK burned as temperatures broke 40°C for the first time in recorded history. As each of us tried different approaches to
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#152 Crisis Shelter Revisited
As hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians flee their country which is under attack by Putin’s Russia, we find that the number of forcibly displaced people
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#137 The Calculator that Could Still Save the World
Two years ago the world was preparing for COP25 in Madrid, and we released this episode (#36) about a calculator that was helping countries around
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#136 The Future of Mobility
In the 20 years before Covid-19 the proportion of 17- to 20-year-olds with a driving licence fell from nearly half to less than a third.
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#135 COP26: Decarbonising Transport
Decarbonisation of transportation and shipping will require us to leverage improvements to green technologies and adapt to new ways of thinking and organising. It will
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Tomatoes and the Road to Net Zero
Author: Bernadette Ballantyne Partner: Mott MacDonald Something very interesting is happening with wastewater in East Anglia. “Last week, we began planting 300,000 baby tomato plants
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#100 Megaprojects (Part 3): Learning from Experience
This is the third and final episode of our three-part special looking at the delivery of megaprojects. In this episode we examine the lessons learned
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#100 Megaprojects (Part 2): How to Deliver?
For the 100th episode of Engineering Matters we bring you this three-part special looking at the delivery of a megaproject. In this second episode, we
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#100 Megaprojects (Part 1): What Makes a Megaproject?
Megaprojects are among the most complex and challenging of society’s undertakings. Each is grand is scope and due to the scale, none are ever built
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Global Risks and Shapeshifting Infrastructure
Author: Alex Conacher Partner: Mott MacDonald In 2020 the weight of the built environment exceeded that of the total biomass. The weight of our buildings,