Parental Influences in engineering
That young people’s attitudes and opinions align largely with their parents on many topics comes as no surprise, and attitudes to engineering appear to be no exception. According to Engineering UK, a report linking the views of over 4,000 young people and their...
Is green hydrogen the solution for green energy? Here’s how RB Plant are playing our part in moving the Hydrogen needle
The challenges of climate change and energy security of late have prompted exploration of other alternatives to fossil fuels to generate electricity. This challenge has been compounded by fossil fuels being easier and cheaper to buy and most Hydrogen being used to...
Re-engineering bacteria to eat plastic
Plastic pollution accounts for around 14 million tonnes of plastic ending up in the earth’s oceans every year. From entangling them, to suffocating, them to ending up in the bodies of sea creatures, plastic pollution is having a massive impact on ocean ecosystems...
Solar panels that generate electricity at night.
Earth continuously receives huge amounts of solar energy from the Sun of which around 30% is instantly reflected from surfaces like snow, particles in the atmosphere, and clouds back into space. The remaining 70% warms the planet. However, that energy doesn’t...
Setting objectives and key results
Objectives and Key Results (OKR) is a collaborative, longer-term, goal-setting framework used by teams to align and engage around a set of measurable objectives which can be tracked over an allotted span of time. Crucially, OKRs are a framework that helps a...
Vaulted floor may cut carbon
Researchers on the ACORN (Automating Concrete Construction) project, a collaboration between the UK universities of Dundee, Cambridge, and Bath, have developed a vaulted floor design which they hope will help decrease the construction industry’s carbon footprint...