Sounds Like Infrastructure by Ferrovial

In this episode we take a look at two stories related to explosives and infrastructure. One for destruction, the other for construction. 

At the beginning of the second World War, the Swiss found themselves surrounded by fighting in Europe. Although they had been officially neutral for more than 100 years, the military weren’t convinced the Germans wouldn’t invade. To help deter an invasion, they came up with a strategy of defense that included placing more than 3,000 demolition points on different bridges and tunnels across the country. 

Fast forward to today and explosives are still being used in our infrastructure. But instead of preventing an invasion, they're now being used as a form of innovation to make construction processes much more efficient.

After a number of fatal rockfalls on a notoriously dangerous stretch of road in the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, the local community petitioned the government to connect the ring road that was being built around the island to the towns of El Risco and La Aldea. The decision was made to construct more than 8km of bridges and tunnels, and working in this difficult landscape under strict regulations brought about an innovation that had never been seen before in civil works in Spain: the team would be manufacturing their own explosives on-site. 

This episode of Sounds Like Infrastructure was produced by Craig Lawless and Kevin Garcia King. Original music and editing by Craig Lawless. If you liked this episode, share it with your friends or go to our channel to listen to other cool stories!

To learn more about Ferrovial and check out some of our other projects, visit www.ferrovial.com. 

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If you are a mobility enthusiast, you'll enjoy #TheChatLab, a YouTube program in which our colleagues interview other experts in the sector. You can also listen to it as a podcast. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8l-qQaea7cjtdSUU2D_Ba8UVpQFiW99e

Do you want to learn all about the current trends of “Mobility as a Service” (MaaS)?

In this episode of #TheChatLab, we speak with Michael Granoff, founder of Maniv Mobility, a mobility forum that invests in large start-ups in the sector. Michael has become a leader in the world of mobility and he tells us first-hand what innovations are coming, how infrastructure will evolve to integrate them, and what users are going to ask for. He is interviewed by Ion Cuervas-Mons, CEO of Wondo, Ferrovial's MaaS app.

Enjoy the episode and welcome to the show!

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If you are a mobility enthusiast, you'll enjoy #TheChatLab, a YouTube program in which our colleagues interview other experts in the sector. You can also listen to it as a podcast. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8l-qQaea7cjtdSUU2D_Ba8UVpQFiW99e

We are launching the second episode of #TheChatLab, a place where we bring together mobility experts for in-depth discussions. Ion Cuervas-Mons, CEO of Wondo, leads this interview with Nir Erez, CEO of Moovit.

Moovit is one of the most relevant mobility start-ups in the world and a reference worldwide. We talk to them about the impact of their business, the implementation of “Mobility as a Service” (Maas) and the new trends that are coming to mobility.

Welcome to the show!

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If you are a mobility enthusiast, you'll enjoy #TheChatLab, a YouTube program in which our colleagues interview other experts in the sector. You can also listen to it as a podcast. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8l-qQaea7cjtdSUU2D_Ba8UVpQFiW99e

Our expert in mobility and CEO of Wondo, Ion Cuervas-Mons, takes over The Chat Lab to interview Yasmine Fage, COO of one of the leading startups in the Goggo Network sector. We are talking about autonomous vehicles, robo-taxis, the new regulation of mobility and the impact that Covid-19 will have on the industry.

In short, we are bringing together two experts to talk about what they know best. This is the first chapter of The Chat Lab. We hope you enjoy it!

https://www.ferrovial.com/en/innovation/

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Between 1799 and 1843 there were three attempts to tunnel under London’s river Thames. But only one was successful, and it would use an invention so simple yet genius that even today’s tunnels are built using an adaptation of it. The idea? Mark Brunel’s tunneling shield.  

We take a look at how the first underground tunnels were built, the questionable health and safety involved in their construction, and how one American financier and ex-convict created the modern underground as we know it.  

We’re also in London to see how Ferrovial Construction are building the latest addition to London’s underground network: the Northern Line Extension.  

This episode of Sounds Like Infrastructure was produced by Craig Lawless and Nicholas Hewson. Original music and editing by Craig Lawless. If you liked this episode, share it with your friends or go to our channel to listen to other cool stories!

To learn more about Ferrovial and check out some of our other projects, visit www.ferrovial.com. 

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In 1858, London was engulfed by a smell so bad that the pungent odor hovering over the city was given its own name. Even the blinds at the houses of parliament had to be soaked in lime of chloride to protect politicians from the afflictions it was believed to cause. By this point, Londoners had been dumping thousands of tons of raw sewage into the Thames on a daily basis. The combination of raw sewage and an unusually hot summer led to not just the smell, but a devastating outbreak of cholera in the world’s most populous city.  

What Londoners didn’t know was that it wasn’t the smell that was causing cholera, but the simple fact that they were drinking the water from the very river they were dumping sewage into. To hide the smell, Victorian engineer Joseph Bazalgette was hired to create a network of sewers beneath the city. His sewers were a huge success but today they’re at full capacity and the Thames is once again at risk of pollution.  

To help provide a cleaner Thames, Ferrovial Construction is working as part of a joint venture to build the central part of what is known as the Thames Tideway super sewer.  

This episode of Sounds Like Infrastructure was produced by Craig Lawless and Nicholas Hewson. Original music and editing by Craig Lawless. If you liked this episode, share it with your friends or go to our channel to listen to other cool stories!

To learn more about Ferrovial and check out some of our other projects, visit www.ferrovial.com. 

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When working well, the infrastructure we use is all but invisible. Its seamless integration into our daily lives means we rarely stop to think "How did this get here?" Sounds Like Infrastructure reveals the secrets and stories behind some of the world’s biggest infrastructure projects. 

Sounds Like Infrastructure is produced by Ferrovial. You can learn more about Ferrovial at www.ferrovial.com or go to our channel to listen to cool stories!

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