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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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#28 Building for Biodiversity

Engineering Matters ·

2019/08/08

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 sustain them. They now only persist in the North of Scotland, so when Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks planned a new substation in the Highlands, preserving the habitat of the... The post #28 Building for Biodiversity first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#27 Recycling Plastic into Roads

Engineering Matters ·

2019/07/26

After 844 trial tests, and setting his own street on fire, founder of Scottish start-up MacRebur Toby McCartney finally hit on a viable solution for repairing potholes. His idea sought to resurface roads using recycled plastics, and the result is a form of polymer modification of asphalt that uses a mixture of waste plastics and... The post #27 Recycling Plastic into Roads first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#26 Saving Rossington

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2019/07/16

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 former mining community in Yorkshire, to a coastal replenishment scheme that brought new opportunity to Colwyn Bay in North Wales, we hear how incorporating the sustainable development goals is changing... The post #26 Saving Rossington first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#25 Return of the Fatbergs

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2019/06/27

Underneath cities all over the UK subterranean mountains of calcified fat are gathering in our sewers as fat, oil and grease stick to baby wipes and harden to form a blubbery bacterial blockage. Removing them is dangerous, manual work, putting people and the infrastructure itself at risk. In this episode we venture to the site... The post #25 Return of the Fatbergs first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#24 Unleash the Hydrogen Potential

Engineering Matters ·

2019/06/13

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 element in the Universe and the most energy dense. Burning it creates clean electricity and heat without generating carbon emissions, but to utilise it, first it must be released from... The post #24 Unleash the Hydrogen Potential first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#23 Becoming an astronaut: Sophie Harker

Engineering Matters ·

2019/05/30

It was a meeting with the first Briton in space, Dr Helen Sharman, that changed the course of Sophie Harker’s life forever. A maths student at The University of Nottingham, she took this advice seriously and went on to become an aerodynamics and performance engineer at BAE Systems. Although she is yet to leave planet... The post #23 Becoming an astronaut: Sophie Harker first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#22 Electric Excavators: Cities cut carbon in...

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2019/05/21

Since 1913 the world’s most famous flower show has been held every Spring in Chelsea in London. This year among the electric blue Persian Slippers, the white and yellow Anthemis Punctata, and the eye catching, deep pink Digitalis Illumination series of Chris Beardshaw’s Morgan Stanley Garden, there is a focus on creating beautiful gardens with... The post #22 Electric Excavators: Cities cut carbon in construction first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#21 Electric Aviation: Meeting demand for low...

Engineering Matters ·

2019/05/09

Norwegian airline Widerøe needs a new fleet of planes to serve its regional passenger base. But it doesn’t want to buy conventional aircraft. It wants a zero emission fleet to undertake its 450 flights per day, and move 2.8 million passengers per year. But so far, no electric planes have been certified for commercial flight... The post #21 Electric Aviation: Meeting demand for low emission flight first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#20 Electric Vehicles: Lessons from world leading Norway

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2019/05/03

How did Norway become the world’s most successful electric vehicle market? Last month almost 80 percent of all new cars sold in Oslo were EVs and across the entire country it was 58 percent. Even more remarkable is that the soaring popularity of EVs is despite the lower operating efficiency that batteries achieve in cold... The post #20 Electric Vehicles: Lessons from world leading Norway first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#19 Future of 3D Printing

Engineering Matters ·

2019/04/18

From additive manufacturing in space, to 3D printing customised pharmaceuticals and non-planar electronics, the next revolution in 3D printing is already underway. In this episode we head to the International Space Station and interview the engineer behind a world first in 3D printing, “The Refabricator”. This 3D printer that can not only print plastic in... The post #19 Future of 3D Printing first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#18 Cocoa Power

Engineering Matters ·

2019/04/04

Four thousand years after it was first used as a form of nutrition for the Olmec people of Mesoamerica, engineers are finding new ways to harness the potential of the fruit from the miraculous Theobroma Cacao tree, better known today as cocoa pods. Their solution could provide rural farming communities in Ghana with a new... The post #18 Cocoa Power first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#17 Acting on climate change

Engineering Matters ·

2019/03/21

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 the point of no return. Responding to this challenge means that engineering professionals, businesses and institutions must do things differently. They must say no say no to carbon intensive development,... The post #17 Acting on climate change first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#16 Designing green buildings

Engineering Matters ·

2019/03/08

Do plants hold the key to making cities healthier? Could we design buildings that don’t take away green space, but create it? That don’t demand energy, but generate it? Rudi Scheuermann of consultant Arup thinks so. By employing a range of design techniques including cladding structures in living plant walls and engineering bioreactive facades that... The post #16 Designing green buildings first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#15 Engineering Elephants: Brittany Harris

Engineering Matters ·

2019/02/22

Providing water and sanitation after a destructive military revolution in Peru; engineering with elephants in Kenya; and plunging into enormous pot holes in Uganda, the professional life of civil engineer Brittany Harris has been more eventful since she graduated in 2015 than many engineers’ experience throughout their entire working careers. Her efforts to bring sustainable... The post #15 Engineering Elephants: Brittany Harris first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#14 The Bridge Man: Dr Robin Sham

Engineering Matters ·

2019/02/08

How did a circus act inspire a revolutionary new construction method for Scotland’s first glass fibre reinforced polymer, cable stayed footbridge? Why did triumph and heartache underpin construction of the world’s most difficult cable stayed bridge, the Kap Shui Mun Bridge in Hong Kong? What did tunnel engineering teach designers about construction that enabled them... The post #14 The Bridge Man: Dr Robin Sham first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#13 Secrets of the Hoover Dam

Engineering Matters ·

2019/01/27

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 podcast we explore and uncover the secrets of one of the greatest engineering projects ever built. The unique and formidable Hoover Dam. Learn about the “Double Ugly”,... The post #13 Secrets of the Hoover Dam first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#12 The Drone Boom

Engineering Matters ·

2019/01/03

No-one knows how many penguins are in the Antarctic, but thanks to the use of drones this is set to change as scientists are using these unmanned aerial vehicles to fly over colonies of chinstrap, adelie and gentoos. And that is not all. Academics at the University of East Anglia are developing artificial intelligence that... The post #12 The Drone Boom first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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# 11 The robots are here

Engineering Matters ·

2018/12/23

Robots are not just coming. They are already here. From TyBot which can tie steel reinforcement into position on bridges, to the road marking wizard Little Erik, and robotic hot wire cutters that can create bespoke formwork in minutes, robots are able to transform the way that infrastructure and buildings are constructed. From accelerating work... The post # 11 The robots are here first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#10 How China has automated road design

Engineering Matters ·

2018/11/30

With 4.8 million kilometres of road China sits third in the world in terms of length of highways behind only the US and India. But its huge investment budget of £455 billion for new and improved highways could see it bypass these other world leaders. In 2018 alone it will add a further 5,000km presenting... The post #10 How China has automated road design first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#9 The race to create Hyperloop

Engineering Matters ·

2018/11/19

Right now companies around the world are competing in a global race to prove that a new transport revolution is just a few years away. Using high speed transit through low pressure tubes speeds of 1100km/hr per hour are theoretically possible, bringing cities closer together than ever before. London to Edinburgh? 40minutes. Melbourne to Sydney?... The post #9 The race to create Hyperloop first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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