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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#30 Interviewing Dad: Atkins President Philip Hoare

Posted September 5, 2019 • 00:34:19

Chloe is 16 and interested in an engineering career. She is also the daughter of Philip Hoare, President of engineering consultant Atkins. To find out...

#29 Innovations in Renewable Energy: Lorna Bennet

Posted August 22, 2019 • 00:36:21

Growing up in a tiny village in rural Scotland, regular power cuts would leave Lorna Bennet and her family without electricity for days on end. Determined...

#28 Building for Biodiversity

Posted August 8, 2019 • 00:23:03

Habitat for the UK’s Great Yellow Bumblebee has declined 80 percent over the last century thanks to the loss of the flower rich meadows that sustain...

#27 Recycling Plastic into Roads

Posted July 26, 2019 • 00:17:16

After 844 trial tests, and setting his own street on fire, founder of Scottish start-up MacRebur Toby McCartney finally hit on a viable solution for...

#26 Saving Rossington

Posted July 16, 2019 • 00:43:11

Placing the United Nations’ sustainable development goals at the heart of projects can regenerate UK communities. From a new 4km road link that saved...