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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#55 Saving Structures with Satellites

Posted April 30, 2020 • 00:41:28

How data from satellites can track structural movement, and give early warning of potential failure. New research shows that catastrophic bridge collapses...

#54 Keith Bannerman: A life underground

Posted April 17, 2020 • 00:25:14

Carving out underground space for railways, roads, waterways, urban development and even fishing and farming is how some people spend their entire careers....

#53 Technology vs biology: fighting COVID 19

Posted April 3, 2020 • 00:27:43

As cases of COVID 19 explode, the World Health Organisation is urging countries around the world to learn from South Korea. Before even recording its...

#52 Tunnelling Podcast: Propping up Luton Airport’s new rail link

Posted March 27, 2020 • 00:50:52

How a new 2.5km cable pulled railway will connect Luton Airport’s terminal to the UK rail network boosting future growth. Today rail passengers arriving...

#51 Covid 19: Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

Posted March 20, 2020 • 00:20:04

The rapid and exponential spread of the new coronavirus, COVID 19 is changing the way that we live and work. First detected in December 2019 in Wuhan...