The Greenpower Education Trust is seeking sponsors to help launch a new and exciting Initiative for young people. The ‘Design your Environment’ program due to be launched at Eco Build 2012 aims to inspire young people with the importance of sustainable engineering within the built environment.
This two part program expected to start in September 2012 will encourage students to learn about sustainable design and their own environmental impact through activity filled Design your Environment Days and an annual sustainable design competition for participating schools.
Jeremy Way, Director of Greenpower, the organisation best known for inspiring young people into engineering by pitting school, college and university teams against each other to design and race their own electric car, made the following comment: ‘We can’t wait to get stuck into this new programme which will be a great addition to our work, however we need support to help make ‘Design your Environment’ a reality. We are looking for regional and national sponsors committed to sustainability within the built environment as well as passionate volunteers nationwide’.
Thanks to early support from Ecobuild and the trust’s existing partners ‘Design your Environment’ will be launched at Ecobuild 2012. Launch sponsor, sustainable design and build company Fordingbridge plc are looking forward to the event. ‘The launch will be great fun; we have 9 school teams presenting their own sustainable building designs, and plenty of demonstrations to try out’. For a taster of the program and how you can help make the project a reality, visit us in the south hall, stand S1865.
For more information on The Greenpower Education Trust please visit www.greenpower.co.uk
To learn how you can help please contact edwardway@fordingbridge.co.uk
Details
The ‘Design your Environment’ initiative will aim to cover the construction engineering involved in both domestic and commercial buildings along with lifestyle changes that may be necessary to reduce carbon emissions.
Design your Environment Day
The program due to start in schools in September will have two separate activities. The first, a ‘Design your Environment Day’ at participating schools, will include workshops and hands on demonstrations such as effective insulation, heat pumps and human powered energy production. In addition students can also expect to be put on the spot with our energy quiz. School teams will be encouraged to assess simple ways that the school can reduce their energy use.
Design your Environment Competition
For schools that wish to participate, a school building design competition will be held. School teams will be challenged to design and present their own sustainable classroom design; points will be given for imagination, innovation and presentation as well as sustainability. It is proposed that there will a series of regional heats leading to the first national final, to be held at Ecobuild 2013.
