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#376 Sandy’s Left Turn: Building a Resilient Manhattan
September 24, 2026 · 39 minIn 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…
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#375 Innovation Champion – Engineering Matters Awards
September 10, 2026 · 22 minIn 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…
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#374 Net Zero Champion – Engineering Matters Awards
August 27, 2026 · 23 minIn 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 minReturning 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…
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#372 Sustainability Champion – Engineering Matters Awards
July 30, 2026 · 16 minIn 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…
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#371 Revisited: Place is the Space for Growth
July 16, 2026 · 37 minHow 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…
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#370 The Forgotten Arsenal of the Ocean: Clearing Dumped Munitions
July 2, 2026 · 40 minAt 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…
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#369 Health & Safety Champion – Engineering Matters Awards
June 18, 2026 · 14 minIn 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…