Engineering stories whose deep dive explains geography, ready to use as a starter, a reading task or a real-world example. Each one links to the GCSE and A level curriculum.
Energy & EnvironmentBreakthroughs
Endurance Energy has generated electricity from a geothermal well drilled 1,500 metres beneath the Pacific Ocean, the first offshore geothermal power system ever deployed.
Deep dive: The Organic Rankine Cycle and Subsea Power Generation
Construction & Infrastructure
Engineers begin placing 15,000 tonnes of Norwegian granite to protect the 150-year-old South Gare breakwater on the River Tees from increasingly severe North Sea…
Deep dive: How Rock Armour Protects Coastal Structures
Energy & EnvironmentBreakthroughs
Mazama Energy's superhot rock geothermal wells drill three miles down to tap 400°C heat, with each well generating 15MW of round-the-clock clean power.
Deep dive: Drilling for Supercritical Heat
Electronics & Communications
LED light pollution in cities is worsening despite energy-efficient streetlights. Engineers are rethinking colour temperature, shielding, and urban lighting design.
Deep dive: The Physics of LED Light Pollution in Cities
Construction & Infrastructure
How Jones Bros used 66,500 tonnes of Welsh rock armour to build the Kinmel Bay coastal defence, protecting 2,000+ homes from the sea.
Deep dive: How Rock Armour Absorbs a Storm
Construction & Infrastructure
China's 1GW Hami molten salt solar plant combines PV and concentrated solar to generate electricity eight hours after sunset.
Construction & InfrastructureInnovation
AF Gruppen wins the NOK 5.6bn contract to build the Stad Ship Tunnel, the world's first full-size ship tunnel through Norway's Stad peninsula.
Deep dive: drilling through gneiss at ship-tunnel scale
Energy & Environment
The first wave of large-scale offshore wind farms is ageing. Turbines installed in the mid-2000s are approaching the end of their 20–25-year design lives,…
Deep dive: The Physics of Neodymium Magnets and Electromagnetic Generation
Construction & InfrastructureInnovation
RWE is building the UK's largest Pembroke battery storage facility in Wales, a 350MW lithium-ion system that could power the grid for two continuous…
Deep dive: Grid-Scale Lithium-Ion Pembroke Battery Storage
Construction & InfrastructureInnovation
The UK's upgraded surface water flood forecasting system uses impact-based modelling to protect 4.6 million at-risk properties from intense rainfall events.
Deep dive: How Surface Water Flood Forecasting Works
Energy & EnvironmentInnovation
The Swansea tidal lagoon project has been revived after Swansea Council struck a deal with renewable developer Batri. Here's how tidal energy engineering works.
Deep dive: The Engineering Behind a Swansea Tidal Lagoon