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 5.7milli

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#315 Renewing the World, Without Costing the Planet

Posted February 6, 202500:43:23

How should engineers think about their duty to design safe structures? For IStructE’s head of climate action Will Arnold, this duty extends beyond...

#314 Remote Operations, To the Moon and Back

Posted January 30, 202500:44:54

Ten years ago, Fugro set out on an ambitious mission: to bring expert staff off of vessels, and into a purpose built remote operations centre, or ROC....

#313 Introducing: Mapping Italy’s Seagrass for Biodiversity Gain, from Planet Beyond

Posted January 23, 202500:40:09

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) has a 100 year history of mapping the world’s oceans. John Nyberg, technical director, explains...

#312 Lifting Each Other Up — Engineering Matters Awards 2025 shortlist, People

Posted January 17, 202500:44:38

What do engineers build? Often, the answer will be bridges and dams, apartment blocks and factories.

But in everything they do, engineers...

#311 Transforming the World, and the Economy — Engineering Matters Awards 2025 shortlist, Planet, Part 3

Posted January 16, 202500:59:31

At the core of engineering and manufacturing, is the transformation of materials. 

A tree becomes a book. A stone is transformed into a concrete...