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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#70 On Track for a Rail Revolution

Posted September 17, 2020 • 00:38:25

The railway network in the UK is old and vast and home to the first public railway to use steam locomotives in the world. The Stockton and Darlington...

#69 Artificial Intelligence in Infrastructure

Posted September 10, 2020 • 00:20:38

Maintaining a tunnel requires many hours of dedicated work by highly skilled engineers. And as our network of tunnels expands, so does the maintenance...

#68 The Future of Design

Posted September 3, 2020 • 00:34:49

Changes to the way we do design are coming; construction is languishing at the bottom of the productivity rankings, now below hunting and fishing. ...

#67 The Future is Remote and Autonomous

Posted August 27, 2020 • 00:35:25

Remotely operated vehicles, uncrewed surface vessels and ever-increasing autonomy are removing personnel from dangerous work offshore in the North Sea...

#66 Fever Screening in Airports

Posted August 20, 2020 • 00:27:06

As a small island trading nation, Britain risks killing its economy and losing millions of jobs, unless it can allow people to get back to work in as...