Engineering themes
Environmental/Climate
A total of 110 items listed.
Towards sustainable growth
K.G. Adams CVO and W.E. Duckworth OBE FREng
In the future, will personal fulfilment be achieved more through intellectual, aesthetic, spiritual, physical and social activities and less through material consumption?
Coping with the wash: The nature of wash waves produced by fast ferries
Professor Trevor Whittaker and Björn Elsäßer
Fast ferries used on routes previously served by conventional ships have caused increased wash problems
Smart homes at the start of the 21st century
Professor Richard Harper
Results of trials in which families lived in a smart home and challenges for the smart-technology developers of the future
Just another source of neutrons? The removal of the Jason reactor at Greenwich
Rick Lockwood and Professor Philip Beeley
The safe decommissioning and removal of a nuclear reactor housed in a Grade 1 listed building
Catalysts: key to the quest for clean air
Robert Evans MSc
Catalytic emissions control systems have led to huge reductions in vehicle pollution, and more is yet to come
Gas turbine technology: powering the future
Philip Ruffles CBE FREng FRS
The complex technology, environmental concerns and economic issues that are shaping the jet aircraft engines of today and tomorrow
Homes for the new millennium: new technology and innovation at Greenwich Millennium Village
Dr Robert Hawley CBE DSc FRSE FRENg, Chairman, Taylor Woodrow PLC; Richard Hodkinson BSc (Hons) Ceng MICE MIStructE MCIOB, Richard Hodkinson Consultancy
The Greenwich Millennium Village aims to show how ideas of sustainable development can be put into practice
Water for life: supply and demand in the 21st century
Professor Chris Binnie FREng
The water companies have some work to do to maintain a clean, reliable supply for the future
Power for the people: Stirling engines for domestic CHP
Fred Starr MIM Ceng
Combined Heat and Power has the potential to enable a household to generate its own electricity – the time is right for this technology
Creating Eden in Cornwall: the civil and structural design of the Eden Project
Alan C. Jones FIStructE
Clever engineering has transformed a disused clay pit into a paradise for plants
Flood warnings
Ed Gallagher CBE FREng
Last year's extensive flooding has raised questions about flood defences and the environment – the time is ripe for some innovative engineering solutions
Engineers in disaster relief
Jo da Silva
In the long aftermath of disasters, engineers with their practical skills and planning abilities bring relief to thousands of victims
