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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#137 The Calculator that Could Still Save the World

Posted November 11, 2021 • 00:28:56

Two years ago the world was preparing for COP25 in Madrid, and we released this episode (#36) about a calculator that was helping countries around the...

#136 The Future of Mobility

Posted November 4, 2021 • 00:21:46

In the 20 years before Covid-19 the proportion of 17- to 20-year-olds with a driving licence fell from nearly half to less than a third. Even before...

#135 COP26: Decarbonising Transport

Posted October 29, 2021 • 00:35:56

Decarbonisation of transportation and shipping will require us to leverage improvements to green technologies and adapt to new ways of thinking and...

#134 COP26: Working in a Climate Conscious World

Posted October 28, 2021 • 00:19:29

The world is in a climate emergency and as its inhabitants, we have a narrow window of opportunity to take control. And the infrastructure industry...

#133 COP26: The Legacy of the Lac Megantic Disaster

Posted October 27, 2021 • 00:35:23

Early in the morning of 6 July 2013 a freight train carrying 7.7 million litres of crude oil derailed, destroying downtown Lac Megantic, a small town...