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  • #378 Revisited: Designing Dinorwig – Inside Electric Mountain

    October 22, 2026 · 43 min

    In late 1973 the UK’s Central Electricity Generating Board gained parliamentary approval to build the largest and most difficult pumped storage hydroelectric power station in its history. It was the largest civil engineering contract ever…

  • #377 German Offshore Wind and the Mudflats of the Wadden Sea

    October 8, 2026 · 49 min

    Germany needs 70GW of offshore wind power connected to its grid by 2045, part of an estimated 300GW total capacity by 2050 for all of the nations bordering the North Sea. To achieve that ambitious goal it needs to run power cables through…

  • #376 Sandy’s Left Turn: Building a Resilient Manhattan

    September 24, 2026 · 39 min

    In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy turned sharply west and drove a storm surge into New York Harbor. Lower Manhattan flooded, a substation failed leaving more than 220,000 people without power, and damage across the wider region reached…

  • #375 Innovation Champion – Engineering Matters Awards

    September 10, 2026 · 22 min

    In this episode, we celebrate Showerkap, winner of the Innovation Champion category in the Engineering Matters Awards 2026. The final award of the series. Judged by representatives from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Engineers…

  • #374 Net Zero Champion – Engineering Matters Awards

    August 27, 2026 · 23 min

    In this Engineering Matters Awards episode, we celebrate the winner of the Net Zero Champion category, which recognises projects, processes, and tools that make a real contribution to reducing carbon emissions. The highest awards were to…

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  • #373 Lubricating the Lunar Frontier

    August 13, 2026 · 27 min

    Returning to the Moon is the next step, but staying there is the next leap. Abrasive and electrostatically-charged dust particles cling to every surface, and find their way into every mechanism, while a radiation-blasted lunar surface…

  • #372 Sustainability Champion – Engineering Matters Awards

    July 30, 2026 · 16 min

    In this Engineering Matters Awards episode, we celebrate the winner of the Sustainability Champion category, which recognises organisations driving groundbreaking innovation to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability…

  • #371 Revisited: Place is the Space for Growth

    July 16, 2026 · 37 min

    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 mayoral combined authorities has allowed…

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

    July 2, 2026 · 40 min

    At the end of the Second World War, millions of tonnes of unwanted explosives and weapons were disposed of at sea. For decades, these dumped munitions lay hidden beneath the waves as time and tide passed over them. Now 80 years past that…

  • #369 Health & Safety Champion – Engineering Matters Awards

    June 18, 2026 · 14 min

    In this Engineering Matters Awards episode, we celebrate the winners of the Health & Safety Champion category, which recognises engineers who are changing how we protect people in some of the world’s most challenging env…

  • #368 Community Champion – Engineering Matters Awards

    June 4, 2026 · 19 min

    This episode is part of the Engineering Matters Awards series, recognising individuals and organisations making an outstanding contribution to the engineering profession and wider society. Engineering is often judged by technical…

  • #367 Nature Based Solutions: The End of Grey Engineering

    May 21, 2026 · 37 min

    For decades, infrastructure design has relied on ‘grey’ engineering: concrete flood walls, steel structures and rigid systems designed to control the environment. But with climate pressures intensifying, engineers are increasingly looking…

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About the show

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 5.7million people work in engineering related enterprises from manufacturing and agriculture to construction and transportation. Their work ensures that the country has sustainable power supplies, better connectivity between cities, increasing efficiency in production processes; advanced manufacturing methods; and is embracing the digital transformations that include virtual modelling of our environment, and development of intelligent machines. Our episodes will examine the vital work of engineers using a mix of interviews, analysis and site visits.