October 8, 2012 – Martyn Perks

Category: Speaking & appearances

Engineers, be bold – Britain needs grander designs

Posted On October 8, 2012October 3, 2019 By martynperks

First published in The Independent. Co-authored with Paul Reeves. A dearth of real engineering ambition is holding back the sector. Big, ambitious projects are needed to put us back on track. Last week the Royal Academy of Engineering published a report Jobs and growth: the importance of engineering skills to the UK economy that claimed […]

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