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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
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#49 Uncharted waters: Flooding and drought
This winter a series of weather bombs detonated across the UK, overwhelming river systems and overtopping flood defences. River levels were off the charts, 4000
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#41 Crunch Time for Net Zero
Last year the UK set a legally binding target to become carbon neutral by 2050, ahead of any other major global economy. In doing so
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#36 The Calculator that Could Save the World
How a calculator is helping countries around the world to lower their greenhouse gas emissions and create more sustainable energy systems. When Professor David MacKay
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#34 Crisis Shelter for Mass Displacement
Noorullah Kuchai is a civil engineer, a humanitarian and a refugee twice over. He lived in a tent in a Pakistani refugee camp for a
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#31 Creating a National Digital Twin
Back in December 2017 the UK’s National Infrastructure Commission set the UK a huge challenge: to create a digital model of our national infrastructure. Known
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#28 Building for Biodiversity
Habitat for the UK’s Great Yellow Bumblebee has declined 80 percent over the last century thanks to the loss of the flower rich meadows that
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#26 Saving Rossington
Placing the United Nations’ sustainable development goals at the heart of projects can regenerate UK communities. From a new 4km road link that saved a
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#24 Unleash the Hydrogen Potential
Could the lightest element in the periodic table be the answer to the world’s most weighty challenge of decarbonising energy? Hydrogen is the most abundant
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#17 Acting on climate change
As young people all over the world protest over political inaction on climate change, we ask how engineers can prevent our planet’s temperature rising past
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#13 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