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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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#296 A Safer, Faster, Way to Build Offshore Wind

Engineering Matters ·

2024/10/10

The North Sea’s natural conditions, with shallow waters and strong winds, make it ideal for wind farms. But, these same factors pose challenges for construction. To meet ambitious Net Zero targets, improving the speed and efficiency of installing wind farm foundations is critical. At the same time, these works must be carried out safely, without...The post #296 A Safer, Faster, Way to Build Offshore Wind first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#295 Decision Time for the Hydrogen Economy

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2024/10/03

The first stable atom to form after the Big Bang was hydrogen. Transformed into other atoms through stellar nuclear fusion, it is the foundation of all matter. Bound with other elements in water and hydrocarbons, it is the basis for all life, and the fuel of the industrial revolution. But can it also be the...The post #295 Decision Time for the Hydrogen Economy first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#294 A View of the Future from Coire Glas

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2024/09/26

On Coire Glas, in the remote Scottish Highlands, geologists and engineers are developing a vision of Scotland’s energy future. SSE Renewables plans the first pumped hydro storage facility in the UK for decades here, taking advantage of the unique and awe inspiring landscape. But first, they need to understand conditions on and in the ground....The post #294 A View of the Future from Coire Glas first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#293 Engineering Matters Awards: Community Champion,...

Engineering Matters ·

2024/09/19

For 70% of the world’s population, doing the laundry means hours of difficult manual washing. It was this fact that led Nav Sawhney to leave his job as a design engineer at Dyson and try to come up with a way to fix this problem. After six different design iterations, Nav and his team at...The post #293 Engineering Matters Awards: Community Champion, The Washing Machine Project first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#292 Place is the Space for Growth

Engineering Matters ·

2024/09/12

How should local and regional leaders encourage investment in their communities? Around the world, cities struggle with a legacy of industrial decline. In England, devolution of planning policy to mayoral combined authorities has allowed for regions like Greater Manchester to outpace national growth. But within regions, local areas can themselves fall behind, and require a...The post #292 Place is the Space for Growth first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#291 Making the Case for Cutting Carbon

Engineering Matters ·

2024/09/05

Project managers have traditionally measured the viability of a project design or materials choice as a triangle, balancing cost, scope and performance. With the addition of carbon, this triangle becomes a three-sided pyramid, with four considerations each interacting with the others. Materials suppliers and project designers now have a wealth of carbon cutting innovations available...The post #291 Making the Case for Cutting Carbon first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#290 Racing for Innovation: Inside Formula Student

Engineering Matters ·

2024/08/29

Formula Student is Europe’s top educational motorsport competition, with students and teams from all over the world coming to compete. The competition is integrated into engineering degree courses, allowing students to take what they are learning in the classroom and lab, into the real world. It tests both engineering skills, and the project management that...The post #290 Racing for Innovation: Inside Formula Student first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#289 Engineering Matters Awards: Sustainability...

Engineering Matters ·

2024/08/22

Lean production techniques have become common across heavy industry. They cut resource use, and promote quality assurance. They were inspired by shelf stocking techniques used in US grocery stores. But can they now be turned to the start of the grocery supply chain, farming itself? That is the goal of Engineering Matters Awards Sustainability Gold...The post #289 Engineering Matters Awards: Sustainability Champions, Intelligent Growth Solutions first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#288 Engineering Matters Awards: Net Zero Champion –...

Engineering Matters ·

2024/08/15

We can only efficiently reduce those things that we can measure. The Whole Life Carbon Assessment standard, produced by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), established a method for assessing the carbon impact of buildings. Its updated version, which came into effect in July, expanded its scope to include infrastructure, and was designed to...The post #288 Engineering Matters Awards: Net Zero Champion – Whole Life Carbon Assessment, 2nd edition first appeared on Engineering

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#287 Engineers Without Borders: The Design Challenge

Engineering Matters ·

2024/08/08

The Engineers Without Borders UK People Design Challenge is a year long challenge that is part of many UK engineering students’ degrees. For this episode we went to Stoller Hall in Manchester to cover the Design Challenge final. The design challenge each year focuses on a new community, and puts them at the centre of...The post #287 Engineers Without Borders: The Design Challenge first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#286 AI In the Real World

Engineering Matters ·

2024/08/01

With the launch of robot taxis, we are already seeing autonomously controlled devices operating alongside humans in the public realm. As AI improves it will become embedded in our physical environment, in factories and construction sites, and in our streets and homes. In episode 267, we talked to Darren Martin about the importance of considering...The post #286 AI In the Real World first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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Bonus: Engineering a Low Carbon Paris Olympics

Engineering Matters ·

2024/07/26

What does it take to win at the Olympics? For Pierre Engel, chief engineer at ArcelorMittal, victory took years of experience, precision, and collaboration. He was aided by kit made entirely of a novel material—low carbon recycled steel. Pierre’s challenge shared much with those faced by Olympians. But he wasn’t skipping rope to keep himself...The post Bonus: Engineering a Low Carbon Paris Olympics first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#285 Delivering the Floating Offshore Wind Revolution

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2024/07/25

The UK is a global leader when it comes to the development of offshore wind energy. Despite past government bans on onshore wind development, the UK was able to continue developing its wind energy portfolio by going out to sea. The UK now generates over a quarter of its electricity from wind, with a significant... The post #285 Delivering the Floating Offshore Wind Revolution first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#284 Queensway Tunnel: The Miracle Under the Mersey

Engineering Matters ·

2024/07/18

When the Queensway Tunnel opened on 18th July 1934 King George V declared it a miracle. At 3.4km long and with a 13.4m internal diameter it was the world’s longest subaqueous tunnel and the largest municipal engineering project that had ever been undertaken in the UK. The project pushed the boundaries of engineering design and...The post #284 Queensway Tunnel: The Miracle Under the Mersey first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#283 Engineering Matters Awards: Net Zero champion...

Engineering Matters ·

2024/07/11

In every home, ancient technologies lurk, threatening fire and ruin. While many devices—lights, TVs, and hard drives, for example—have adopted solid state technologies, power bricks still use ageing electromechanical systems. AmberSemi’s AC Direct DC Enabler is a fabless semiconductor system that replaces these bricks. At home, that means smaller, safer ways of connecting DC devices...The post #283 Engineering Matters Awards: Net Zero champion AmberSemi first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#282 Engineering Matters Awards: Dumarey

Engineering Matters ·

2024/07/04

Can an ancient technology help spin up the renewables revolution? Dumarey—formerly Punch—Flybrid is doing just that, with its flywheel-based technology. In this episode, one of a series this summer, we look at their winning entries to the Engineering Matters Awards. On construction sites, power supply must be shaped around the peak demands of heavy equipment....The post #282 Engineering Matters Awards: Dumarey first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#281: Engineering Matters Awards: Inclusion...

Engineering Matters ·

2024/06/27

The adventures of astronauts have inspired the dreams of many young people. But once those dreams collide with the reality of years of demanding training and study, they often fade. Today, space is about much more than high profile crewed missions. In the UK alone, tens of thousands of workers will be needed by the...The post #281: Engineering Matters Awards: Inclusion champion—Space for Everyone first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#280 Engineering Matters Awards: Net Zero Champion...

Engineering Matters ·

2024/06/20

We delve into the critical role of the built environment in addressing the climate emergency, and how our Engineering Matters Awards Net Zero champion the Built Environment Carbon Database (BECD) is helping decarbonise the industry. Created by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS), the BECD is a...The post #280 Engineering Matters Awards: Net Zero Champion BCIS Built Environment Carbon Database first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#279 Intersection, Identity, and Engineering

Engineering Matters ·

2024/06/13

The concept of intersection has given society a new way to understand identity. It has profound implications for how we understand ourselves and others in our workplaces. For engineers, it can inform how projects are designed, and how they meet the needs of diverse users. The concept was developed by Kimberlé Crenshaw, and draws on...The post #279 Intersection, Identity, and Engineering first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#278 Engineering Matters Awards: Innovation Gold...

Engineering Matters ·

2024/06/06

Around the world, 8% of CO2 emissions come from the production of concrete, and 90% of those emissions come from the production of cement. This episode highlights the groundbreaking work of Engineering Matters Awards Gold Champion Seratech, a company pioneering the use of carbon capture technology in concrete production. Their innovative process uses the abundant...The post #278 Engineering Matters Awards: Innovation Gold Champion Seratech’s Carbon Capture Concrete first appeared on Engineering

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