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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#117 How Sails Could Save Shipping

Posted July 22, 202100:21:17

The first boats that harnessed the wind to skip over the waves may have been built 8,000 years ago. Several hundred years later, the earliest seaborne...

#116 Climate Change: Islands on the Frontline

Posted July 15, 202100:30:06

Island states are at the forefront of climate change. Rising sea levels mean more coastal erosion, overtopping of defences and salinification of land....

#115 The Circular Road

Posted July 8, 202100:20:38

In this episode we explain how one of the world’s biggest problems – plastic waste can be reused in state of the art, energy-efficient road-building...

#114 Engineering with Dogs

Posted July 1, 202100:26:46

Ecologists on infrastructure projects have some new team members: Conservation dogs. Their superior olfactory systems mean that they can sniff out a...

#113 Food Waste: Making a Net Zero Jet Fuel

Posted June 24, 202100:27:55

Every year 1.3 billion tonnes of food are wasted. The waste occurs all through the supply chain, from the farm itself, all the way to the household....