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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#147 Flooding: Making Space for Water

Posted January 27, 2022 • 00:29:03

In the summer of 2021 record rainfall overwhelmed river systems across Europe. People in the Limburg region of the Netherlands held their collective...

#146 Small Modular Reactors

Posted January 20, 2022 • 00:27:33

The 2021 energy crisis saw coal power plants fire into life as natural gas prices spiralled and wind turbines stood idle. The combination of circumstances...

#145 Andrew Smyth – Engineering with Cake

Posted January 13, 2022 • 00:22:45

When Andrew Smyth turned the handle on his clockwork pies on Great British Bake Off in 2016, it brought together two disciplines that had never been...

#144 Enhancing an Estuary, Restoring a River

Posted January 6, 2022 • 00:36:12

In this first episode of the New Year, we are telling a story about renewal. A project in 1950s New Zealand called the Kaituna Cut re-diverted a river,...

#143 Learning From Adventure

Posted December 23, 2021 • 00:38:07

This week we bring you a guest episode from the Planet Beyond podcast.

An...