Environmental
Engineering Trees: Restoring UK Woodlands
It is tree planting season in the UK. With their amazing carbon storage ability, flood alleviation capacity and biodiversity boosting potential, trees are fast becoming
Environmental
#93 Tomatoes and the Road to Net Zero
Something remarkable is happening in East Anglia. Waste heat from sewage treatment is being pumped into two enormous greenhouses creating low carbon heat for growing
Environmental
#91 Global Risks and Shapeshifting Infrastructure
With the weight of the built environment exceeding that of the total biomass for the first time, the human impact on the planet has passed
Environmental
#88 Engineering Trees
It is tree planting season in the UK. With their amazing carbon storage ability, flood alleviation capacity and biodiversity boosting potential, trees are fast becoming
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#86 Enterprise Delivery: A Model for Recovery
With a £100bn capital spending plan, the biggest ever investment in new transport infrastructure and a ten-point plan for climate change, the UK is determined
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Unleash the Hydrogen Potential
Author: Bernadette Ballantyne Supporter: Mott Macdonald Hydrogen is the most abundant and energy dense element in the Universe. It is the conversion of hydrogen to
Long reads
Happy Birthday Engineering Matters!
Engineering Matters is two years old! For the past 24 months we have been telling stories about engineering that is solving some of the world’s
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#59 Empowering Ethical Engineering
Engineers are in a uniquely powerful position. Able to shape our built environment and so influence the direction of civilisation, the impact that their expertise
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Women Engineering a Better World
“At Engineering Matters we strive to ensure diversity and equality in our podcasts all year round. This means making sure that the work of women
Digital
The Calculator that Could Save the World
Professor David MacKay had a reputation for being the smartest person at Cambridge University – the University that educated Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Alan Turing, Dian Fossey, Ernest Rutherford, John Maynard Keynes, Michael Foale, David Attenborough, Emma Thompson and Professor Stephen Hawking.
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#56 The Biodiversity Emergency
Biodiversity in the UK is facing an emergency with around 30 percent of native species becoming extinct since the 1970s. This loss of wildlife, which
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#51 Covid 19: Disaster Resilient Infrastructure
The rapid and exponential spread of the new coronavirus, COVID 19 is changing the way that we live and work. First detected in December 2019