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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#107 Africa: Connecting a Continent

Posted May 13, 202100:26:27

Preparation is currently underway for installation of one of the world’s longest fibre optic communications cables. Survey vessels are circumnavigating...

#106 A Beginner’s Guide to Social Value

Posted May 6, 202100:35:00

Why do we build? Why develop society? And who reaps the benefit? In this episode we look at the new interest the construction industry is taking in...

#105 Solar Grazing at Shaker Village

Posted April 29, 202100:30:52

In a field a few miles southwest of the city of Lexington in Kentucky, a sheep is quietly grazing in the shade. This is a very special sheep. It has...

#104 Solving Rail’s Hidden Hazard

Posted April 22, 202100:25:30

In 2019/20 an estimated 693,000 workers in Great Britain sustained a non-fatal injury at work in Great Britain. The figure, which comes from the Office...

#103 A Canadian Blueprint for Net Zero

Posted April 15, 202100:30:15

What is Net Zero? And how can we get there? Can we mitigate the damage of three centuries of fossil fuel-powered industrialisation, with three decades...