Engineering Matters
Episodes
#17 Acting on climate change
21 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As young people all over the world protest over political inaction on climate change, we ask how engineers can prevent our planet’s temperature risi...
#16 Designing green buildings
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rudi Scheuermann Do plants hold the key to making cities healthier? Could we design buildings that don’t take away green space, but create it...
#15 Engineering Elephants: Brittany Harris
22 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Providing water and sanitation after a destructive military revolution in Peru; engineering with elephants in Kenya; and plunging into enormous po...
#14 The Bridge Man: Dr Robin Sham
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Robin Sham How did a circus act inspire a revolutionary new construction method for Scotland’...
#13 Secrets of the Hoover Dam
27 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Are there really bodies buried in the Hoover Dam? Was the hard hat really invented here in 1931? And why was it originally called Boulder Dam? In this...
#12 The Drone Boom
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
No-one knows how many penguins are in the Antarctic, but thanks to the use of drones this is set to change as scientists are using these unmanned aeri...
# 11 The robots are here
23 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Robots are not just coming. They are already here. From TyBot which can tie steel reinforcement into position on bridges, to the road marking wizard L...
#10 How China has automated road design
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With 4.8 million kilometres of road China sits third in the world in terms of length of highways behind only the US and India. But its huge investment...
#9 The race to create Hyperloop
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Right now companies around the world are competing in a global race to prove that a new transport revolution is just a few years away. Using high spee...
#8 Cargotecture: scaling up shipping container construction
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Floating along Copenhagen’s central waterway is a new proposition in affordable student accommodation, Urban Rigger. Each of these 745m2 units start...
#7 The woman who built Trump Tower
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The story of how Brooklyn born maths genius Barbara Res became head of construction for Trump Tower, despite deep-rooted sexism that sat at the heart ...
#6 Minecraft: inspiring young engineers
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The story of how schools, colleges and professional institutions are working with Minecraft Education Edition to inspire the next generation of young ...
#5 Community Power: solar gains for villagers
19 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How a small village in Buckinghamshire developed and delivered a clean, green, solar energy project that generates enough electricity to power over 10...
FIRE 4: New tech for a safer future
28 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
From apps that can tell building residents what to do in a fire, to smart psrinklers and localised external fire detection and suppression, new techno...
FIRE 3: In event of a fire use the lift
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the event of a fire do not use the lift, use the stairs. We have been conditioned to fear using an elevator to escape a fire. But one major London...
FIRE 2: Incentivising good practice
14 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the second of our series of podcasts examining fire safety in tall buildings we ask how can developers of tall buildings be incentivised to build i...
FIRE 1: Making buildings safer
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Now is the time for change when it comes to fire safety in tall buildings. The catastrophic events at Grenfell Tower in London on 14 June 2017 have be...
#4 The Rise of the Digital Twin
23 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Digital twins are revolutionising business models for aviation, industry and engineering. These virtual replicants of assets enriched with real time a...
#3 Worms and plastic: a waste treatment revolution
09 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The UK in now at war with waste plastic creating major new opportunities for the waste industry. In January Prime Minister Theresa May published a new...
#2 Lost in spaces
25 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Satellite based global positioning systems have revolutionised navigation outdoors and now software engineers are bringing the same innovation to indo...