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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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#357c Well-Grounded Decisions: Construction and...

Engineering Matters ·

2025/12/22

A wise asset owner builds on solid ground. Unless ground risks are clearly identified, projects can easily be delayed or delivered over budget. Some risks may not even be fully understood until an asset begins operations. In this final episode of three on ground risks and the asset life cycle, Karim Khalaf explains how one major European vehicle manufacturer only learned how the soil beneath their new manufacturing plant would act, once steel presses started working—effectively inducing a series of

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#357b Well-Grounded Decisions: Design Development

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2025/12/19

Without a clear understanding of ground conditions, unquantified risk can be transferred from project owner to lead contractors when a contract is signed. In the first episode of this three part series, we explored how geophysical screening, using non-intrusive methods, can be used to reduce uncertainty in site selection and provide clarity on construction costs and delivery schedules.In this episode, we move past the final investment decision, to the development of project designs. Karim

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#357a Well-Grounded Decisions: Site Selection

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2025/12/18

On any project, uncertainty creates risk. Decisions that are made without a good understanding of site conditions can result in overengineering or threats to safety. Delivery may be delayed, and unexpected costs incurred. To avoid these risks, project owners and other stakeholders should question their assumptions and get real, actionable insights throughout the project lifecycle. In this three-part series, we explore a key source of risk to any project, subsurface conditions, and a new approach

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#356 Making Space for Wastewater Treatment

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2025/12/11

Wastewater treatment is an overlooked lifesaver. While the medical advances of the last 100 years—penicillin, chemotherapy, and, more recently, mRNA vaccines—have transformed healthcare, keeping our water supplies free from pathogens like cholera and dysentery, has saved many more lives. The systems developed to treat wastewater are so successful that we can afford to flush and forget.But this is infrastructure we must not overlook. Growing populations, increased use by industry, and regulations

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33:55

#355 The Real Value of Nature

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2025/12/04

Green-grey engineering combines nature-based solutions with traditional civil engineering. It can be used in flood protection, with mangroves acting as a first line of defense rather than relying wholly on seawalls or earthen berms. As parts of the world face dual threats of flood and drought, the same systems can incorporate drainage and water collection.Unlike traditional civil engineering, nature-based solutions offer a wide range of additional benefits. Mangroves act as fish nurseries

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#354 AI in Infrastructure: Adoption and Guardrails

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2025/11/27

The infrastructure sector is adopting AI with enthusiasm. A new whitepaper from Bentley Systems, Pinsent Masons, Turner & Townsend, and Mott Macdonald, The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Built Environment, surveyed the sector, and found the 48% of the infrastructure companies they spoke to were trialling AI, or had already implemented it. But only one fifth had a comprehensive AI policy, more than a third had no organisational policy, and 37% had only limited project controls, or none

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#353 Carbon Assessment in a Time of Housebuilding

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2025/11/20

This week, the UK House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, or EAC, released a report on environmental sustainability and housing growth. The UK government is striving to meet a target of building one and a half million new homes, and has raised concerns about the risk that environmental objections could delay their construction. But, the...The post #353 Carbon Assessment in a Time of Housebuilding first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#352 Health Monitoring for Offshore Wind

Engineering Matters ·

2025/11/13

From blood pressure monitors and smart watches, to MRIs and step counters, many of us make tracking health metrics part of our daily routine. Armed with data, we can take steps to extend our lives. And this approach can also be used to extend the life of key components of our energy infrastructure. The offshore...The post #352 Health Monitoring for Offshore Wind first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#351 Rough Seas and Reliable Defence Partnerships

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2025/11/06

Around the world, climate change and shifting alliances are opening up new theatres of geopolitical competition. In the Arctic, Canada must be ready to patrol a new coastline; in the Pacific, Australia faces increased tension with China. Naval defence will be a key component of these nations’ security planning. But the so-called ‘exquisite’ capabilities of...The post #351 Rough Seas and Reliable Defence Partnerships first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#350 Living in Space: The Next Generation of Astronauts

Engineering Matters ·

2025/10/30

Dr Meganne Christian is a scientist and adventurer. In her research, she has studied the performance of novel materials including the use of nanoscale metals for hydrogen storage, and the use of graphene across a diverse range of applications. But her career has taken her far from the traditional university lab. In 2018-2019, Meganne was...The post #350 Living in Space: The Next Generation of Astronauts first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#349 Never Again: Embedding Safety in Engineering

Engineering Matters ·

2025/10/23

The tragic fire at Grenfell Tower in west London demanded new ways of thinking about professionalism and ethics in the engineering sector. However, since that awful night in 2017, which saw the loss of 72 lives, fatal incidents and near misses have continued to happen: in Genoa, in Toddbrook, in Miami, and on many more...The post #349 Never Again: Embedding Safety in Engineering first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#348 Modelling Distributed Energy Storage

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2025/10/16

In Europe, and around the world, renewable electricity generation is being built at pace. However, these sources of energy create a new challenge: they are intermittent, and will not generate power on dark, windless days. One solution to the challenge is to install grid scale storage. If you’re building an offshore wind farm, with a...The post #348 Modelling Distributed Energy Storage first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#347 The pipeline to Net Zero, revisited

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2025/10/09

Last week, at the end of September 2025, a study by Regen, commissioned by the MCS Foundation, found that biomethane had a limited capacity to replace natural gas in the UK’s domestic heating. The study emphasised the importance of focusing on electricity and heat pumps to keep our homes warm. This means that much of...The post #347 The pipeline to Net Zero, revisited first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#346 Scaling Carbon-Free Cement

Engineering Matters ·

2025/10/02

It’s a simple fact of chemistry that cement cannot be produced, without also producing carbon dioxide. But this does not mean that the sector—and its clients in the construction industry—cannot decarbonise. The equally simple solution is just to capture and store the carbon dioxide, before it can enter the atmosphere. The challenge is how to...The post #346 Scaling Carbon-Free Cement first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#345 Pinpoint Precision in Space Positioning

Engineering Matters ·

2025/09/25

When launching a satellite into orbit, getting the positioning right is of paramount importance. As humanity sends more satellites into space, the vast space above our heads has become hazardously busy. State-of-the-art positioning technology has helped to counter this problem, with existing systems able to track the location of satellites to an accuracy of metres....The post #345 Pinpoint Precision in Space Positioning first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#344 Networks Under Water: Transport, Flooding and...

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2025/09/18

When flooding happens, damage and disruption ripples out across assets and infrastructure. Private businesses and homeowners can insure themselves against direct damages to buildings. But the impacts on the local economy go much further: debris can block transport networks, causing businesses to fail and reducing tax revenues, at a time when increased local government spending...The post #344 Networks Under Water: Transport, Flooding and Resilience first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#343 Weaving Software into Automation

Engineering Matters ·

2025/09/11

Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented the punch card as a means of inputting control data to one of the earliest automated technologies, the weavers’ loom. A generation later, Charles Babbage used this innovation as part of his design for an ‘analytical engine’, and Ada Lovelace demonstrated how sets of instructions could be written for the engine to...The post #343 Weaving Software into Automation first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#342 Real Solutions and the Industrial Metaverse

Engineering Matters ·

2025/08/14

The metaverse is often thought of as an alternative virtual space, a world separate from reality where we can hang out with avatars of our friends and families, or shop at virtual stores. But the industrial metaverse ties the physical and the virtual much more closely together, with a focus that is less on photorealism,...The post #342 Real Solutions and the Industrial Metaverse first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#341 Opening the Door to Engineering – Engineering...

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2025/08/07

Alan Lusty founded adi Group, a multidisciplinary engineering business supporting major manufacturers. He is part of a group that offers engineering services in 23 sectors, with over 750 employees. But he left school at 16 without qualifications, instead pursuing an apprenticeship. At adi Group, more than 10% of employees are apprentices: double the rate set...The post #341 Opening the Door to Engineering – Engineering Matters Awards winner’s episode first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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#340 Diving Deep into Electric Machinery

Engineering Matters ·

2025/07/31

Electrification of construction equipment is an ongoing and necessary part of the global effort to reduce carbon emissions and restrict global warming. Sixty years ago, Fugro developed the first commercial cone penetration testing equipment to run on electrical power, and today it is continuing on that journey by electrifying the machine that carries it. What...The post #340 Diving Deep into Electric Machinery first appeared on Engineering Matters.

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