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JULY 07 - BACKING THE RACE FOR GREEN POWER!



An active role in helping the future generation appreciate the benefits of sustainable solutions is being adopted by Glidevale Ltd.

The company, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of roofing and roof ventilation products, is sponsoring the 2007 ‘Formula 24’ Greenpower car built by pupils at St Pauls Catholic College in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, as part of the students’ extra-curriculur enrichment programme open to students in Years 7-11. Under the Greenpower scheme, pupils at secondary schools design, build and race their own car, using as a power source just one standard 24volt electric wheelchair motor and two 12volt car batteries, then compete the car in a series of four-hour endurance races culminating in a national final held at the historic Goodwood Motor Circuit. The scheme can involve work in various subjects including Design & Technology, media (sponsorship and marketing of the car), textiles (team clothing), ICT (data logging, car electronics and monitoring of lap times) and Food Technology (feeding the crew!).

For St Pauls, Glidevale has provided additional assistance for the students by helping manufacture the car body panels using its advanced ABS material and colouring technology used in its own range of slate and tile ventilators and Sunscoop tubular rooflight, and helping engineer the aluminium box section frame chassis.

Neil Rideout, Glidevale Technical Director, elaborates, “The use of non-fossil fuels in the Greenpower scheme provides obvious synergy with Glidevale’s roof ventilation solutions and Sunscoop tubular rooflights which use state-of-art materials and natural resources of daylight and air movement. Additionally, we believe in encouraging understanding of sustainable solutions, and where better than in the engineers, architects and builders of tomorrow- today’s schoolchildren?”

Glidevale is part of the Building Product Design Group, and is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of roofing, ventilation and daylight solutions. It invests in a continuous programme of research and development to bring to market innovative yet practical products in line with changing market needs.

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