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Engineering Matters

Five times winner of the Publisher Podcast Awards, including Best Technology Podcast, Engineering Matters celebrates the work of engineers who use ingenuity, practicality, science, theory and determination to build a better world. In the UK alone 5.7million people work in engineering related enterprises from manufacturing and agriculture to construction and transportation. Their work ensures that the country has sustainable power supplies, better connectivity between cities, increasing efficiency in

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#249 The Cables That Bind Our World Together

Engineering Matters ·

2024/01/25

The modern world is bound together with cables. As our economy moves to the cloud, the vast majority of data traffic passes through subsea cables. As we transition to renewable energy, hundreds of kilometres of cabling are needed within each wind farm, and to connect wind farms to the shore. When the first cables were... The post #249 The Cables That Bind Our World Together first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#248 Revisited: Secrets of the Hoover Dam

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2024/01/18

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 Dam? In this episode, first aired in 2019, we explore and uncover the secrets of one of the greatest engineering projects ever built. The unique and formidable Hoover Dam. Learn... The post #248 Revisited: Secrets of the Hoover Dam first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#247 Saving Structures with Cathodic Protection

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2024/01/11

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 Davy. Initially applied to ships and pipelines, Mott MacDonald has spent decades pioneering its use on civil infrastructure designing systems for bridges and buildings around the world. This innovative thinking... The post #247 Saving Structures with Cathodic Protection first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#246 Tiny Robots, Big Moves: The Basics of Microrobot...

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2024/01/04

From tireless assembly lines in bustling factories to the delicate precision of diamond cutting, robots are transforming industries by becoming superhuman coworkers. But what if we shrunk these tireless partners down to the size of a grain of rice? Enter the realm of microrobots, where the boundaries of automation shrink to the scale of a... The post #246 Tiny Robots, Big Moves: The Basics of Microrobot Actuation first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#245 Transparent Concrete

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2023/12/21

What would it mean to be able to look at a bag of concrete, and see its embodied carbon? That’s the goal of the new benchmark rating scheme for concrete, developed by the UK Low Carbon Concrete Group. It will allow suppliers, contractors and developers to consider the carbon footprint of projects, alongside cost and... The post #245 Transparent Concrete first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#244 Water Quality: Navigating Challenges in UK’s...

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2023/12/14

Post the industrial revolution the UK’s waterways became very polluted, but the last 30 years have seen a massive turnaround in the UK’s water quality. Since the pandemic wild swimming has had a boom in popularity, with the UK’s beaches, lakes and rivers becoming popular destinations for being in nature and going for a dip.... The post #244 Water Quality: Navigating Challenges in UK’s Wild Waters first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#243 Virtual Reality: A New Vision for Construction

Engineering Matters ·

2023/12/07

Virtual Reality has been steadily growing in the gaming market over the past few years, but now it could be about to change not how people play but how they work. From the imaginative realms of science fiction to the cutting-edge developments of the 21st century, we explore the roots of VR, paying homage to... The post #243 Virtual Reality: A New Vision for Construction first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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SHORT: Recycling, Without Waste

Engineering Matters ·

2023/12/05

It can seem, at times, as if we are drowning in a sea of waste, a great ocean of paper and tin, glass and plastic, all mixed together, and resistant to recycling and re-use. AMP Robotics build systems that cut through this complexity. Trained using millions upon millions of images, their robots can identify, pick,... The post SHORT: Recycling, Without Waste first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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