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#308 Building Bandwidth in the 1920s
We live in a world where data and connectivity are essential to almost everything we do. Cable and satellite connections add value to business through
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#303 Gathering data at the speed of a train: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Health & Safety Gold Champion – Fugro RILA
Monitoring and maintaining an entire rail network can be costly, slow and, for those working on the track, very dangerous. Specialised trains were developed that
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Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 5: How to Swim in a Sea of Data
HS2 is one of the most complex and challenging railway scheme the UK has ever undertaken. As such, it has been generating vast amounts of
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Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 4: Being Safe and Inclusive Every Step of the Way
HS2 is focused not only on safety, but on overall health and wellbeing on all employees and contractors. Identifying long term risks to wellbeing is
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Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 3: Reducing and Reusing
HS2’s place within the current climate and environment has always been its top priority. Once operational, the British-built bullet trains will provide zero-carbon journeys between
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Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 2: The Blueprint and the Real Thing
Design not only encapsulates the creativity and innovation of new products, but is the main source of information for construction to take place. Episode 2
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Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 1: Building a Learning Legacy
The concept of the Learning Legacy programme has been around for longer than you might think. Starting at London 2012, collating and sharing knowledge, innovation,
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Rebuilding the Dawlish Seawall: A Tale of Innovation and Resilience
In the small southwest town of Dawlish, a fateful morning brought unprecedented chaos to the lives of commuters. The picturesque seaside railway that connected them
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Introducing: How to Build a Railway
The Engineering Matters and Reby Media team has been working on a new podcast series in partnership with HS2. How to Build a Railway is
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Network Rail launches heatwave taskforce
Network Rail has announced the creation of a new taskforce that will investigate and then make suggestions on how UK railway can improve its approach
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#82 Securing the Shugborough Tunnel
Set in the West Midlands county of Staffordshire is a former Royal Forest called Cannock Chase. It is part misty, secluded woodland and part undulating
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UK railway sets world leading target to tackle climate change
Owner of the UK rail system Network Rail has become the first in the world to set new targets for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions