Engineering Matters

Engineering Matters


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#292 Place is the Space for Growth
September 12, 2024

How should local and regional leaders encourage investment in their communities? Around the world, cities struggle with a legacy of industrial decline. In England, devolution of planning policy to may

#291 Making the Case for Cutting Carbon
September 05, 2024

Project managers have traditionally measured the viability of a project design or materials choice as a triangle, balancing cost, scope and performance. With the addition of carbon, this triangle beco

#290 Racing for Innovation: Inside Formula Student
August 29, 2024

Formula Student is Europes top educational motorsport competition, with students and teams from all over the world coming to compete. The competition is integrated into engineering degree courses, al

#289 Engineering Matters Awards: Sustainability Champions, Intelligent Growth Solutions
August 22, 2024

Lean production techniques have become common across heavy industry. They cut resource use, and promote quality assurance. They were inspired by shelf stocking techniques used in US grocery stores. Bu

#288 Engineering Matters Awards: Net Zero Champion – Whole Life Carbon Assessment, 2nd edition
August 15, 2024

We can only efficiently reduce those things that we can measure. The Whole Life Carbon Assessment standard, produced by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), established a method for as

#287 Engineers Without Borders: The Design Challenge
August 08, 2024

The Engineers Without Borders UK People Design Challenge is a year long challenge that is part of many UK engineering students degrees. For this episode we went to Stoller Hall in Manchester to cover

#286 AI In the Real World
August 01, 2024

With the launch of robot taxis, we are already seeing autonomously controlled devices operating alongside humans in the public realm. As AI improves it will become embedded in our physical environment

Bonus: Engineering a Low Carbon Paris Olympics
July 26, 2024

What does it take to win at the Olympics? For Pierre Engel, chief engineer at ArcelorMittal, victory took years of experience, precision, and collaboration. He was aided by kit made entirely of a nove

#285 Delivering the Floating Offshore Wind Revolution
July 25, 2024

The UK is a global leader when it comes to the development of offshore wind energy. Despite past government bans on onshore wind development, the UK was able to continue developing its wind energy por

#284 Queensway Tunnel: The Miracle Under the Mersey
July 17, 2024

When the Queensway Tunnel opened on 18th July 1934 King George V declared it a miracle. At 3.4km long and with a 13.4m internal diameter it was the worlds longest subaqueous tunnel and the largest mu