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Industry voices: why won’t the built environment sector modernise?

The UK Built Environment sector faces a multitude of challenges. It must engage with building safety in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire and find ways of removing carbon from its projects to meet the demands of a net-zero carbon economy. 

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Safeguarding the metaverse

A guide to existing and future harms in virtual reality (VR) and the metaverse to support UK immersive technology policymaking.

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FACTFILE

Artificial intelligence and functional safety

Our paper provides a top-level summary to support decision making on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in safety related systems.
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FACTFILE

UK renewables – limitless energy or a precious resource?

Download our report to learn about the primary energy resources we have, future energy user requirements, and a comparison of today’s sustainable resources.
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Key topics

Applied visualisation

We have been examining the opportunities for Applied Visualisation, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality through our volunteer-led working group that operates across industry sectors.
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Industrial strategy

We look at the key actions needed to ensure the UK has a successful industrial strategy.
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Sustainability and climate change

Climate change is the most significant challenge we have ever faced. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is firm in its conclusion that ‘climate change is real and human activities are the main cause’.
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The digital future

The engineering profession is at the forefront of the adoption of digital technologies across multiple industries; embracing new or changing technologies, processes, and tools and bringing about change in the way engineers innovate, design, build and use technology.
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EngShorts

EngShorts is an ongoing series of 60-second videos, that ask challenging questions on big engineering topics to boost our public engagement and thought leadership.

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Sustainable manufacturing: can it deliver net zero through digitalisation?

Autonomy in transport: could crashes soon be a thing of the past?

An interoperable healthcare system: how can we get there?