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#371 Revisited: Place is the Space for Growth

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#370 The Forgotten Arsenal of the Ocean: Clearing Dumped Munitions

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#369 Health & Safety Champion – Engineering Matters Awards

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#368 Community Champion – Engineering Matters Awards

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#367 Nature Based Solutions: The End of Grey Engineering

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#366 Diversity & Inclusion Champion – Engineering Matters Awards

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#357c Well-Grounded Decisions: Construction and Operations

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#357b Well-Grounded Decisions: Design Development

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#357a Well-Grounded Decisions: Site Selection

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#356 Making Space for Wastewater Treatment

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#355 The Real Value of Nature

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#354 AI in Infrastructure: Adoption and Guardrails

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#353 Carbon Assessment in a Time of Housebuilding

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#352 Health Monitoring for Offshore Wind

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#351 Rough Seas and Reliable Defence Partnerships

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#350 Living in Space: The Next Generation of Astronauts

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#349 Never Again: Embedding Safety in Engineering

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#348 Modelling Distributed Energy Storage

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#347 Revisited: The Pipeline to Net Zero

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#346 Scaling Carbon-Free Cement

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#345 Pinpoint Precision in Space Positioning

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#344 Networks Under Water: Transport, Flooding and Resilience

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#343 Weaving Software into Automation

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#342 Real Solutions and the Industrial Metaverse

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

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#340 Diving Deep into Electric Machinery

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#339 Integrated Contracts and Innovative Delivery

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#338 Bio-Inspired Innovation & Systemic Sustainability

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

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

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

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#334 Digital Construction’s Past, Present and Future

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#333 Agents of Change – AI in Industry

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#332 The Future of Airports Around the World

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#331 Life Extension for Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

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

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#325 Real world sustainability and the digital revolution

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#324 A Shift of Power on Europe’s Borders

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#323 Engineers Deliver Impact: The Engineering Matters Awards 2025

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#322 Engineering Ecosystems: Italy’s Seagrass Meadows

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#321 Circular Construction – Designing for Disassembly

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

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#319 Revisited: Green Engineering, with Bison

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#318 Gaming Out a Career in Nuclear

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

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#316 What Can AI Engineers Learn From Medical Professionals?

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#315 Renewing the World, Without Costing the Planet

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#314 Remote Operations, To the Moon and Back

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

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

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

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

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

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#308 Building Bandwidth in the 1920s

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#307 Giving the Gift of Engineering

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#306 Revisited: Building Rothera Wharf

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#305 Making the Case for Nature-Based Solutions

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

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

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

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#301 Electrifying Sydney: Transformational Energy Systems

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#300 Bonus: Powering Net Zero

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#299e Highways UK Live – A Legacy of Excellence

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

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#299c Highways UK Live – Next Generation Asset Management

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#299b Highways UK Live – Roads Reimagined

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

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

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#297 Revisited: A Deep Dive Into the Past

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

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#295 Decision Time for the Hydrogen Economy

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#294 A View of the Future from Coire Glas

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

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#292 Place is the Space for Growth

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#291 Making the Case for Cutting Carbon

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#290 Racing for Innovation: Inside Formula Student

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

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

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#287 Engineers Without Borders: The Design Challenge

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#286 AI In the Real World

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Bonus: Engineering a Low Carbon Paris Olympics

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#285 Delivering the Floating Offshore Wind Revolution

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#284 Queensway Tunnel: The Miracle Under the Mersey

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

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

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

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

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#279 Intersection, Identity, and Engineering

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

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#277 The Race to Net Zero – Innovation at Pace

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#276 A Deep Understanding of the Ground Beneath Our Feet

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#275 Serving Countries to Serving Communities

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#274 Seeing the Future of a City

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#273 The Core Technologies of a New Power System

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#272 Designing Dinorwig: Inside Electric Mountain

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#271 Pumped Storage: Australia tackles Intermittency

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#270 A Blueprint for Low Carbon Roads

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#269 The Pipeline to Net Zero

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

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

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Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 3: Reducing and Reusing

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

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Learning Legacy Podcast – Episode 1: Building a Learning Legacy

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#268 Mastering Time: The Challenge of Time Synchronisation

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#267 AI and Humanity, with Darren Martin

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#266 Building Communities Together

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#265 Tunnelling Innovation: Inventing the Bentonite Shield

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#264 Finding Career Pathways into Social Value

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#263 The Tipping Point

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

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

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

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#259 The Engineering Matters Awards – Innovation, part 3

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#258 The Engineering Matters Awards – Innovation, part 2

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#257 The Engineering Matters Awards – Innovation, part 1

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#256 The Engineering Matters Awards – Environment

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#255 The Engineering Matters Awards – Sustainability, part 2

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#254 The Engineering Matters Awards – Sustainability

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#253 The Engineering Matters Awards – Community

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#252 The Engineering Matters Awards – Health and Safety

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#251 The Engineering Matters Awards – Diversity and Inclusion

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

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#249 The Cables That Bind Our World Together

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#248 Revisited: Secrets of the Hoover Dam

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#247 Saving Structures with Cathodic Protection

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

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#245 Transparent Concrete

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

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#243 Virtual Reality: A New Vision for Construction

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SHORT: Recycling, Without Waste

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#242 Partnerships and Resilience

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

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#240 Saving Homes, Saving the Planet

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#239 The resilience mindset, on Planet Beyond

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#238 A Greener More Pleasant Land

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#237 Climbing the Ladder to Gender Equality

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SHORT: Junade Ali – The Youngest Fellow at the IET

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#236 RAAC: The Misunderstood Material?

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#235 Ffestiniog: 60 Years of Pioneering Storage

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Introducing: Connected Places

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

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#233 Rebuilding the Dawlish Sea Wall

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#232 Future of Technology and Engineering

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#231 Powering Net Zero

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#230 National Security’s New Frontlines

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

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

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

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#226 Gaming: A New Engine for Engagement

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

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#224 Power lines, helicopters, and data analysis

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#223 Data and collaboration, operations and maintenance

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#222 Revisited: The future of 3D printing

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#221 Turning plants into plastics

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#220 The End of the Diesel Generator?

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#219 Syria: Rising from the rubble

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

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

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

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

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

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Episode Seven, How to build a Railway: Building Bridges

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Episode Six, How to build a Railway: Going underground

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

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

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

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Episode Two, How to build a Railway: Unearthing History

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

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#218 Origin stories

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#217 Managing the Energy Transition

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#216 Accelerating Offshore Wind Construction

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#215 Waste Goes Digital

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#214 Delivering a Megaproject

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#213 Revisited: Positioning Satellites in New Space

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#212 Turning beer green

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#211 Rewilding the UK

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#210 Revisited: Return of the Fatbergs

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#209 Asset Management, Resilience, and Climate Change

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#208 Counting Carbon Costs in the Built Environment

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#207 Revolution in the North Sea

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#206 The Giant Props of Gothenburg

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#205 The Green, Green, Shores of Home

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Introducing: How to Build a Railway

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#204 Creating Green Airports of the Future

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#203 Revisited: Crisis Shelter for Mass Displacement

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#202 After the Collapse

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#201 Creating the UK’s First eMixer

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#200 Nuclear Robots on the Cutting Edge

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#199 Pioneering Carbon Capture for Thermal Power

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#198 Collaboration: The Net Zero Trilogy

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#197 On the Cutting Edge of Aviation

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#196 Back to the Future of Fusion

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#195 The Journey of the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree

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#194 Nuclear Power Connections

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

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

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#192 Drilling Deep for Geothermal

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#191 A Deep Dive Into the Past

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#190 Regional Re-balancing

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#189 Life Cycle Analysis of Construction Materials

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#188 Data Analysis for Climate Resilience

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#187 Electrifying the Los Angeles Bus Fleet

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#186 Vampire: Resurrecting Britain’s Fastest Car

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#185 Building Canada Line’s Digital Twin

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#184 The Future of Old Cities

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#183 Testing Times: Building a Megalab

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#182 Using Gravity to Store Energy

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#181 The Foundations of a New Arctic

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#180 Mining in a Net Zero World

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#179 Trees: Escaping the Heat

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#178 A Vision for a Modular Antarctica

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SHORT: Tunnelling on Target

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#177 The Abandoned Mine Lands of Wyoming

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#176 Bangalore and the Digital Transformation

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#175 Tarmac on the Future of Road Technology

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#174 Closing the Building Performance Gap

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#173 Europe’s First Energy Island

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#172 Vaccibox: Revolutionising Kenya’s Vaccine Storage

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#171 Ultraviolet light: Preventing the Next Pandemic

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#170 Pet Food vs Climate Change

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#169 Ocean Science: Ten Years to Turn the Tide

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SHORT: Making the Big Decisions

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#168 Industry 4.0: Finding the Hidden Factory

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#167 Building Allyship

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#166 Space: The Robotic Age

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#165 A Road Map to Net Zero Highways

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#164 Under the North Sea: Threat and Promise

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SHORT: Engineering Winners

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#163 Nuclear Decommissioning with Data

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#162 Smooth as Glass: The Road Ahead

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#161 The Net Zero Laboratory

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#160 Autonomous Driving: Solving the Lidar Challenge

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#159 Dealing with Data

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#158 Vertical Farming at Potager Farm

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SHORT: Celebrating the Work

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#157 Interconnectors: The Green Link to Ireland

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#156 Social Value: How to get it Right

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#155 Coral and the Hunt for a Cure

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#154 Falkirk Wheel: The Design Story

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SHORT: Engineering Waste

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#153 Recycling Carbon: Biofuels from Waste

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#152 Crisis Shelter Revisited

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#151 Electrification: the future of industry

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#150 Green Hydrogen: Creating the System

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#149 Roads: Invention needs Ambition

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#148 Skyscrapers: Predicting the Future

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#147 Flooding: Making Space for Water

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#146 Small Modular Reactors

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#145 Andrew Smyth – Engineering with Cake

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#144 Enhancing an Estuary, Restoring a River

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#143 Learning From Adventure

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#142 Blue Carbon: The Forgotten Store

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#141 Setting up a Vaccine Factory

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#140 HS2 and the Golden Thread of Station Design

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#139 Offshore Wind: Scotland’s World Leader

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#138 Space Resources: The Next Leap

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#137 The Calculator that Could Still Save the World

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#136 The Future of Mobility

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#135 COP26: Decarbonising Transport

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#134 COP26: Working in a Climate Conscious World

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#133 COP26: The Legacy of the Lac Megantic Disaster

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#132 COP26: Decarbonising Buildings

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#131 Cranes: How to Plan a Lift

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#130 Navigating New Construction Technology

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#129 A Vision for Clean Growth in Bradford

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#128 Positioning Satellites in New Space

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#127 Tools for Thinking

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#126 Propping up Vienna

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#125 Artificial Intelligence in Project Planning

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#124 Mussels: How to Save the Seas

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#123 Engineering Plants: Intelligent Growth Solutions

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#122 Decarbonisation: Growing Roads on Trees

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#121 Batteries: The Lithium-Silicon Age

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#120 Recycled Plastic: The Canadian Potential

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#119 The Grange: Saving Time, Saving Lives

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#118 Gateway: The Lunar Space Station

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#117 How Sails Could Save Shipping

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#116 Climate Change: Islands on the Frontline

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#115 The Circular Road

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#114 Engineering with Dogs

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#113 Food Waste: Making a Net Zero Jet Fuel

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#112 Hagerbach: The Bat Cave of Tunnelling

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#111 Machine Learning: Construction’s Future

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#110 London: Boosting Biodiversity

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#109 Spiders Versus Plastic

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#108 Antarctica: Building Rothera Wharf

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#107 Africa: Connecting a Continent

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#106 A Beginner’s Guide to Social Value

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#105 Solar Grazing at Shaker Village

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#104 Solving Rail’s Hidden Hazard

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#103 A Canadian Blueprint for Net Zero

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#102 Crushing Climate Change

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#101 Powering and Protecting Scottish Heritage

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#100 Megaprojects (Part 3): Learning from Experience

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

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

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#99 Urbanisation: Infrastructure for Growing Cities

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#98 The Construction Playground

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#97 The Gateway to Indonesia

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#97 (Indonesian) Bandara Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan

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#96 Fusion: Britain Builds a Star

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#95 Saving Oceans with Science

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#94 Barriers to Data Rich Design

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#93 Tomatoes and the Road to Net Zero

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#92 The Most Flooded Town In England

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#91 Global Risks and Shapeshifting Infrastructure

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#90 The New Way to Plan a City

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#89 Blue Lanes in the Black Country

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#88 Engineering Trees

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#87 So That Was 2020

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#86 Enterprise Delivery: A Model for Recovery

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#85 Concrete’s Role in the Climate War

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#84 Asphalt of the Future

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#83 Digitisation and the road to diversity

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#82 Securing the Shugborough Tunnel

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#81 Zen and the Art of Programme Management

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#80 Covid 19: Construction Copes with the Pandemic

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#79 Rebuilding Zandvoort’s Rollercoaster Racetrack

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#78 Reinventing invention

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#77 Floating Turbines: Offshore Wind’s Game Changer

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#76 Building with Biomaterials

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#75 Last Howl of the Vulcan

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#74 Weaving a New Data Fabric for Infrastructure

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#73 How to Build a Digital Twin

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#72 Seeing the Himalayas: Kickstarting Net Zero

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#71 Stewards of the Soil

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#70 On Track for a Rail Revolution

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#69 Artificial Intelligence in Infrastructure

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#68 The Future of Design

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#67 The Future is Remote and Autonomous

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#66 Fever Screening in Airports

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#65 Every Little Helps

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#64 EDAROTH

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#63 Nine Days to Build a Hospital

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#62 The Washing Machine Project

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#61 Countdown to British launch

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#60 Covid 19: Creating safer spaces

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#59 Empowering Ethical Engineering

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#58 Construction declares climate emergency

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#57 Printing versus the pandemic: COVID 19

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#56 The Biodiversity Emergency

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#55 Saving Structures with Satellites

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#54 Keith Bannerman: A life underground

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#53 Technology vs biology: fighting COVID 19

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

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#51 Covid 19: Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

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#50 Dealing with Nuclear Waste

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#49 Uncharted waters: Flooding and drought

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#48 Paving the way in pothole prevention

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#47 Breathalysing Whales: Drones Revisited

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#46 Metro stations: The gateway to the city

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

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

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#43 Virtual Reality: transforming design

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#42 Surviving a tunnel fire

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#41 Crunch Time for Net Zero

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#40 Becoming a Role Model: Ying Wan Loh

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#39 Heathrow: Leading the digital charge

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#38 Temporary Heroes: Construction’s Unseen Infrastructure

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#37 Solving the Productivity Puzzle

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#36 The Calculator that Could Save the World

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#35 The Quantum Enabler: Professor Sir Peter Knight

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#34 Crisis Shelter for Mass Displacement

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#33 Future Factories: Driving forward industry 4.0

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#32 The untold story of Eiffel and his Tower

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#31 Creating a National Digital Twin

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#30 Interviewing Dad: Atkins President Philip Hoare

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#29 Innovations in Renewable Energy: Lorna Bennet

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#28 Building for Biodiversity

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#27 Recycling Plastic into Roads

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#26 Saving Rossington

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#25 Return of the Fatbergs

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#24 Unleash the Hydrogen Potential

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#23 Becoming an astronaut: Sophie Harker

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#22 Electric Excavators: Cities cut carbon in construction

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#21 Electric Aviation: Meeting demand for low emission flight

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#20 Electric Vehicles: Lessons from world leading Norway

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#19 Future of 3D Printing

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#18 Cocoa Power

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#17 Acting on climate change

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#16 Designing green buildings

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#15 Engineering Elephants: Brittany Harris

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#14 The Bridge Man: Dr Robin Sham

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#13 Secrets of the Hoover Dam

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#12 The Drone Boom

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# 11 The robots are here

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#10 How China has automated road design

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#9 The race to create Hyperloop

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#8 Cargotecture: scaling up shipping container construction

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#7 The woman who built Trump Tower

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#6 Minecraft: inspiring young engineers

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#5 Community Power: solar gains for villagers

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FIRE 4: New tech for a safer future

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FIRE 3: In event of a fire use the lift

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FIRE 2: Incentivising good practice

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FIRE 1: Making buildings safer

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#4 The Rise of the Digital Twin

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#3 Worms and plastic: a waste treatment revolution

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#2 Lost in spaces