Adrian Boulding: Dashboard engineers must avoid pension's 'Great Stink'

This year is the bicentenary of the birth of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, one of the greatest of the Victorian engineers - and there were plenty of them! Bazalgette (pictured, below) is perhaps most famous for the creation of an efficient network of brick-built sewers across London. With amazing foresight, he created a system with enough spare capacity that it is still in use today, despite the population of our capital city more than doubling since the network opened. And because much of London is low-lying, he added pumping stations at strategic intervals, to help move everything along...