All Episodes

#369 Health & Safety Champion – Engineering Matters Awards

#368 Community Champion – Engineering Matters Awards

#367 Nature Based Solutions: The End of Grey Engineering

#366 Diversity & Inclusion Champion – Engineering Matters Awards

#357c Well-Grounded Decisions: Construction and Operations

#357b Well-Grounded Decisions: Design Development

#357a Well-Grounded Decisions: Site Selection

#356 Making Space for Wastewater Treatment

#355 The Real Value of Nature

#354 AI in Infrastructure: Adoption and Guardrails

#353 Carbon Assessment in a Time of Housebuilding

#352 Health Monitoring for Offshore Wind

#351 Rough Seas and Reliable Defence Partnerships

#350 Living in Space: The Next Generation of Astronauts

#349 Never Again: Embedding Safety in Engineering

#348 Modelling Distributed Energy Storage

#347 Revisited: The Pipeline to Net Zero

#346 Scaling Carbon-Free Cement

#345 Pinpoint Precision in Space Positioning

#344 Networks Under Water: Transport, Flooding and Resilience

#343 Weaving Software into Automation

#342 Real Solutions and the Industrial Metaverse

#341 Opening the Door to Engineering – Engineering Matters Awards winners

#340 Diving Deep into Electric Machinery

#339 Integrated Contracts and Innovative Delivery

#338 Bio-Inspired Innovation & Systemic Sustainability

#337 Breaking Barriers to STEM with Lightyear Foundation – Engineering Matters Awards winners

#336 Gravity-Powered Heavy Haul – Engineering Matters Awards winners

#335 Monitoring Methane: The Tech Behind the Tech – Engineering Matters Awards winners

#334 Digital Construction’s Past, Present and Future

#333 Agents of Change – AI in Industry

#332 The Future of Airports Around the World

#331 Life Extension for Infrastructure

#330 A Village Full of Maths Tutors – Engineering Matters Awards’ winners

#329 Scaling Low Carbon Innovation – Engineering Matters Awards’ winners

#328 Listening for Leaks – Engineering Matters Awards Innovation Champion, FIDO

#327 Nuclear Engineering for School Children – Engineering Matters Awards 2025

#326 Revisited: The Green, Green, Shores of Home

#325 Real world sustainability and the digital revolution

#324 A Shift of Power on Europe’s Borders

#323 Engineers Deliver Impact: The Engineering Matters Awards 2025

#322 Engineering Ecosystems: Italy’s Seagrass Meadows

#321 Circular Construction – Designing for Disassembly

#320 International Year of Quantum: 100 Years of Quantum Mechanics

#319 Revisited: Green Engineering, with Bison

#318 Gaming Out a Career in Nuclear

#317 Human Factors, Human Error, and Safety by Design

#316 What Can AI Engineers Learn From Medical Professionals?

#315 Renewing the World, Without Costing the Planet

#314 Remote Operations, To the Moon and Back

#313 Introducing: Mapping Italy’s Seagrass for Biodiversity Gain, from Planet Beyond

#312 Lifting Each Other Up — Engineering Matters Awards 2025 shortlist, People

#311 Transforming the World, and the Economy — Engineering Matters Awards 2025 shortlist, Planet, Part 3

#310 Manufacturing a Brighter Future – Engineering Matters Awards 2025 shortlist, Planet, Part 2

#309 A Generation of Change – Engineering Matters Awards 2025 shortlist, Planet, Part 1

#308 Building Bandwidth in the 1920s

#307 Giving the Gift of Engineering

#306 Revisited: Building Rothera Wharf

#305 Making the Case for Nature-Based Solutions

#304 Grounded in Knowledge – Ireland’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm

#303 Gathering data at the speed of a train: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Health & Safety Gold Champion – Fugro RILA

#302 Conservation, Community and AI: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Community Gold Champion — iNaturalist

#301 Electrifying Sydney: Transformational Energy Systems

#300 Bonus: Powering Net Zero

#299e Highways UK Live – A Legacy of Excellence

#299d Highways UK Live – The Journey to Net Zero and Resilience

#299c Highways UK Live – Next Generation Asset Management

#299b Highways UK Live – Roads Reimagined

#299a Highways UK Live – The Future of Highways – Mini-series Preview

#298 Making Everyone Welcome in Construction: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Diversity & Inclusion Gold Champion — EKFB

#297 Revisited: A Deep Dive Into the Past

#296 A Safer, Faster, Way to Build Offshore Wind

#295 Decision Time for the Hydrogen Economy

#294 A View of the Future from Coire Glas

#293 Cleaning clothes and changing lives: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Community Gold Champion — The Washing Machine Project

#292 Place is the Space for Growth

#291 Making the Case for Cutting Carbon

#290 Racing for Innovation: Inside Formula Student

#289 Bringing lean production to agriculture: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Sustainability Gold Champions — Intelligent Growth Solutions

#288 Counting carbon costs of the world’s infrastructure: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Net Zero Gold Champion – Whole Life Carbon Assessment, 2nd edition

#287 Engineers Without Borders: The Design Challenge

#286 AI In the Real World

Bonus: Engineering a Low Carbon Paris Olympics

#285 Delivering the Floating Offshore Wind Revolution

#284 Queensway Tunnel: The Miracle Under the Mersey

#283 Power, without the power brick: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Net Zero Gold Champion AmberSemi

#282 Spinning up the renewables revolution: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Gold Champion — Dumarey

#281 A rocket in the high street: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Inclusion Gold Champion — Space for Everyone

#280 Measuring carbon in materials and projects: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Net Zero Champion — BCIS Built Environment Carbon Database

#279 Intersection, Identity, and Engineering

#278 Capturing carbon with concrete: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Innovation Gold Champion Seratech

#277 The Race to Net Zero – Innovation at Pace

#276 A Deep Understanding of the Ground Beneath Our Feet

#275 Serving Countries to Serving Communities

#274 Seeing the Future of a City

#273 The Core Technologies of a New Power System

#272 Designing Dinorwig: Inside Electric Mountain

#271 Pumped Storage: Australia tackles Intermittency

#270 A Blueprint for Low Carbon Roads

#269 The Pipeline to Net Zero

Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 5: How to Swim in a Sea of Data

Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 4: Being Safe and Inclusive Every Step of the Way

Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 3: Reducing and Reusing

Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 2: The Blueprint and the Real Thing

Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 1: Building a Learning Legacy

#268 Mastering Time: The Challenge of Time Synchronisation

#267 AI and Humanity, with Darren Martin

#266 Building Communities Together

#265 Tunnelling Innovation: Inventing the Bentonite Shield

#264 Finding Career Pathways into Social Value

#263 The Tipping Point

#262 The Engineering Matters Awards – Net Zero, part 3

#261 The Engineering Matters Awards – Net Zero, part 2

#260 The Engineering Matters Awards – Net Zero, part 1

#259 The Engineering Matters Awards – Innovation, part 3

#258 The Engineering Matters Awards – Innovation, part 2

#257 The Engineering Matters Awards – Innovation, part 1

#256 The Engineering Matters Awards – Environment

#255 The Engineering Matters Awards – Sustainability, part 2

#254 The Engineering Matters Awards – Sustainability

#253 The Engineering Matters Awards – Community

#252 The Engineering Matters Awards – Health and Safety

#251 The Engineering Matters Awards – Diversity and Inclusion

#250 The Observational Method – Engineering’s Best Kept Secret

#249 The Cables That Bind Our World Together

#248 Revisited: Secrets of the Hoover Dam

#247 Saving Structures with Cathodic Protection

#246 Tiny Robots, Big Moves: The Basics of Microrobot Actuation

#245 Transparent Concrete

#244 Water Quality: Navigating Challenges in UK’s Wild Waters

#243 Virtual Reality: A New Vision for Construction

SHORT: Recycling, Without Waste

#242 Partnerships and Resilience

#241 Wind, Waves and Wildlife: Navigating Biodiversity in Offshore Wind

#240 Saving Homes, Saving the Planet

#239 The resilience mindset, on Planet Beyond

#238 A Greener More Pleasant Land

#237 Climbing the Ladder to Gender Equality

SHORT: Junade Ali – The Youngest Fellow at the IET

#236 RAAC: The Misunderstood Material?

#235 Ffestiniog: 60 Years of Pioneering Storage

Introducing: Connected Places

#234 Microreactors: From the Moon, to the ends of the Earth

#233 Rebuilding the Dawlish Sea Wall

#232 Future of Technology and Engineering

#231 Powering Net Zero

#230 National Security’s New Frontlines

#229 Chip Manufacturing and the World’s Most Complex Machine

#228 Hydrogen, and the road to Net Zero building materials

#227 Electrifying the Skies: Harbour Air’s Green Revolution

#226 Gaming: A New Engine for Engagement

#225 Saudi Arabia: Preserving the past, building the future

#224 Power lines, helicopters, and data analysis

#223 Data and collaboration, operations and maintenance

#222 Revisited: The future of 3D printing

#221 Turning plants into plastics

#220 The End of the Diesel Generator?

#219 Syria: Rising from the rubble

Episode Twelve, How to build a Railway: Leaving a legacy

Episode Eleven, How to build a Railway: Safe at Heart

Episode Ten, How to build a Railway: Keeping things clean – our journey to net zero

Episode Nine, How to build a Railway: From Track to The Cloud – the Layers of Railway

Episode Eight, How to build a Railway: Our next stop is…

Episode Seven, How to build a Railway: Building Bridges

Episode Six, How to build a Railway: Going underground

Episode Five, How to build a Railway: Opportunity for Innovation

Episode Four, How to build a Railway: Creating the Green Corridor

Episode Three, How to build a Railway: Preparing the ground

Episode Two, How to build a Railway: Unearthing History

Episode One, How to build a Railway: The What and the Why of HS2

#218 Origin stories

#217 Managing the Energy Transition

#216 Accelerating Offshore Wind Construction

#215 Waste Goes Digital

#214 Delivering a Megaproject

#213 Revisited: Positioning Satellites in New Space

#212 Turning beer green

#211 Rewilding the UK

#210 Revisited: Return of the Fatbergs

#209 Asset Management, Resilience, and Climate Change

#208 Counting Carbon Costs in the Built Environment

#207 Revolution in the North Sea

#206 The Giant Props of Gothenburg

#205 The Green, Green, Shores of Home

Introducing: How to Build a Railway

#204 Creating Green Airports of the Future

#203 Revisited: Crisis Shelter for Mass Displacement

#202 After the Collapse

#201 Creating the UK’s First eMixer

#200 Nuclear Robots on the Cutting Edge

#199 Pioneering Carbon Capture for Thermal Power

#198 Collaboration: The Net Zero Trilogy

#197 On the Cutting Edge of Aviation

#196 Back to the Future of Fusion

#195 The Journey of the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree

#194 Nuclear Power Connections

#193 Carbon Crunch (Part 2): Resilience in a Changing World

#193 Carbon Crunch (Part 1): The Decarbonisation Debate

#192 Drilling Deep for Geothermal

#191 A Deep Dive Into the Past

#190 Regional Re-balancing

#189 Life Cycle Analysis of Construction Materials

#188 Data Analysis for Climate Resilience

#187 Electrifying the Los Angeles Bus Fleet

#186 Vampire: Resurrecting Britain’s Fastest Car

#185 Building Canada Line’s Digital Twin

#184 The Future of Old Cities

#183 Testing Times: Building a Megalab

#182 Using Gravity to Store Energy

#181 The Foundations of a New Arctic

#180 Mining in a Net Zero World

#179 Trees: Escaping the Heat

#178 A Vision for a Modular Antarctica

SHORT: Tunnelling on Target

#177 The Abandoned Mine Lands of Wyoming

#176 Bangalore and the Digital Transformation

#175 Tarmac on the Future of Road Technology

#174 Closing the Building Performance Gap

#173 Europe’s First Energy Island

#172 Vaccibox: Revolutionising Kenya’s Vaccine Storage

#171 Ultraviolet light: Preventing the Next Pandemic

#170 Pet Food vs Climate Change

#169 Ocean Science: Ten Years to Turn the Tide

SHORT: Making the Big Decisions

#168 Industry 4.0: Finding the Hidden Factory

#167 Building Allyship

#166 Space: The Robotic Age

#165 A Road Map to Net Zero Highways

#164 Under the North Sea: Threat and Promise

SHORT: Engineering Winners

#163 Nuclear Decommissioning with Data

#162 Smooth as Glass: The Road Ahead

#161 The Net Zero Laboratory

#160 Autonomous Driving: Solving the Lidar Challenge

#159 Dealing with Data

#158 Vertical Farming at Potager Farm

SHORT: Celebrating the Work

#157 Interconnectors: The Green Link to Ireland

#156 Social Value: How to get it Right

#155 Coral and the Hunt for a Cure

#154 Falkirk Wheel: The Design Story

SHORT: Engineering Waste

#153 Recycling Carbon: Biofuels from Waste

#152 Crisis Shelter Revisited

#151 Electrification: the future of industry

#150 Green Hydrogen: Creating the System

#149 Roads: Invention needs Ambition

#148 Skyscrapers: Predicting the Future

#147 Flooding: Making Space for Water

#146 Small Modular Reactors

#145 Andrew Smyth – Engineering with Cake

#144 Enhancing an Estuary, Restoring a River

#143 Learning From Adventure

#142 Blue Carbon: The Forgotten Store

#141 Setting up a Vaccine Factory

#140 HS2 and the Golden Thread of Station Design

#139 Offshore Wind: Scotland’s World Leader

#138 Space Resources: The Next Leap

#137 The Calculator that Could Still Save the World

#136 The Future of Mobility

#135 COP26: Decarbonising Transport

#134 COP26: Working in a Climate Conscious World

#133 COP26: The Legacy of the Lac Megantic Disaster

#132 COP26: Decarbonising Buildings

#131 Cranes: How to Plan a Lift

#130 Navigating New Construction Technology

#129 A Vision for Clean Growth in Bradford

#128 Positioning Satellites in New Space

#127 Tools for Thinking

#126 Propping up Vienna

#125 Artificial Intelligence in Project Planning

#124 Mussels: How to Save the Seas

#123 Engineering Plants: Intelligent Growth Solutions

#122 Decarbonisation: Growing Roads on Trees

#121 Batteries: The Lithium-Silicon Age

#120 Recycled Plastic: The Canadian Potential

#119 The Grange: Saving Time, Saving Lives

#118 Gateway: The Lunar Space Station

#117 How Sails Could Save Shipping

#116 Climate Change: Islands on the Frontline

#115 The Circular Road

#114 Engineering with Dogs

#113 Food Waste: Making a Net Zero Jet Fuel

#112 Hagerbach: The Bat Cave of Tunnelling

#111 Machine Learning: Construction’s Future

#110 London: Boosting Biodiversity

#109 Spiders Versus Plastic

#108 Antarctica: Building Rothera Wharf

#107 Africa: Connecting a Continent

#106 A Beginner’s Guide to Social Value

#105 Solar Grazing at Shaker Village

#104 Solving Rail’s Hidden Hazard

#103 A Canadian Blueprint for Net Zero

#102 Crushing Climate Change

#101 Powering and Protecting Scottish Heritage

#100 Megaprojects (Part 3): Learning from Experience

#100 Megaprojects (Part 2): How to Deliver?

#100 Megaprojects (Part 1): What Makes a Megaproject?

#99 Urbanisation: Infrastructure for Growing Cities

#98 The Construction Playground

#97 The Gateway to Indonesia

#97 (Indonesian) Bandara Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan

#96 Fusion: Britain Builds a Star

#95 Saving Oceans with Science

#94 Barriers to Data Rich Design

#93 Tomatoes and the Road to Net Zero

#92 The Most Flooded Town In England

#91 Global Risks and Shapeshifting Infrastructure

#90 The New Way to Plan a City

#89 Blue Lanes in the Black Country

#88 Engineering Trees

#87 So That Was 2020

#86 Enterprise Delivery: A Model for Recovery

#85 Concrete’s Role in the Climate War

#84 Asphalt of the Future

#83 Digitisation and the road to diversity

#82 Securing the Shugborough Tunnel

#81 Zen and the Art of Programme Management

#80 Covid 19: Construction Copes with the Pandemic

#79 Rebuilding Zandvoort’s Rollercoaster Racetrack

#78 Reinventing invention

#77 Floating Turbines: Offshore Wind’s Game Changer

#76 Building with Biomaterials

#75 Last Howl of the Vulcan

#74 Weaving a New Data Fabric for Infrastructure

#73 How to Build a Digital Twin

#72 Seeing the Himalayas: Kickstarting Net Zero

#71 Stewards of the Soil

#70 On Track for a Rail Revolution

#69 Artificial Intelligence in Infrastructure

#68 The Future of Design

#67 The Future is Remote and Autonomous

#66 Fever Screening in Airports

#65 Every Little Helps

#64 EDAROTH

#63 Nine Days to Build a Hospital

#62 The Washing Machine Project

#61 Countdown to British launch

#60 Covid 19: Creating safer spaces

#59 Empowering Ethical Engineering

#58 Construction declares climate emergency

#57 Printing versus the pandemic: COVID 19

#56 The Biodiversity Emergency

#55 Saving Structures with Satellites

#54 Keith Bannerman: A life underground

#53 Technology vs biology: fighting COVID 19

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

#51 Covid 19: Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

#50 Dealing with Nuclear Waste

#49 Uncharted waters: Flooding and drought

#48 Paving the way in pothole prevention

#47 Breathalysing Whales: Drones Revisited

#46 Metro stations: The gateway to the city

#45 Offshore Wind, Part 2 : Foundations for the Future

#44 Offshore Wind, Part 1: Becoming a World Leader

#43 Virtual Reality: transforming design

#42 Surviving a tunnel fire

#41 Crunch Time for Net Zero

#40 Becoming a Role Model: Ying Wan Loh

#39 Heathrow: Leading the digital charge

#38 Temporary Heroes: Construction’s Unseen Infrastructure

#37 Solving the Productivity Puzzle

#36 The Calculator that Could Save the World

#35 The Quantum Enabler: Professor Sir Peter Knight

#34 Crisis Shelter for Mass Displacement

#33 Future Factories: Driving forward industry 4.0

#32 The untold story of Eiffel and his Tower

#31 Creating a National Digital Twin

#30 Interviewing Dad: Atkins President Philip Hoare

#29 Innovations in Renewable Energy: Lorna Bennet

#28 Building for Biodiversity

#27 Recycling Plastic into Roads

#26 Saving Rossington

#25 Return of the Fatbergs

#24 Unleash the Hydrogen Potential

#23 Becoming an astronaut: Sophie Harker

#22 Electric Excavators: Cities cut carbon in construction

#21 Electric Aviation: Meeting demand for low emission flight

#20 Electric Vehicles: Lessons from world leading Norway

#19 Future of 3D Printing

#18 Cocoa Power

#17 Acting on climate change

#16 Designing green buildings

#15 Engineering Elephants: Brittany Harris

#14 The Bridge Man: Dr Robin Sham

#13 Secrets of the Hoover Dam

#12 The Drone Boom

# 11 The robots are here

#10 How China has automated road design

#9 The race to create Hyperloop

#8 Cargotecture: scaling up shipping container construction

#7 The woman who built Trump Tower

#6 Minecraft: inspiring young engineers

#5 Community Power: solar gains for villagers

FIRE 4: New tech for a safer future

FIRE 3: In event of a fire use the lift

FIRE 2: Incentivising good practice

FIRE 1: Making buildings safer

#4 The Rise of the Digital Twin

#3 Worms and plastic: a waste treatment revolution

#2 Lost in spaces