Cutting 10% of emissions in 2010

Yes! Aerotrope has signed up to the 10:10 campaign: This means we are pledging to reduce our carbon footprint by 10% within the next year. Should be easy, shouldn’t it?

We are already using Good Energy as a 100% green electricity supplier (pure wind energy of course). All our staff are walking and cycling to work, which means 100% clean transport on a sunny day. Also, Aerotrope offers to buy new bikes as part of our tax-free cycle-to-work scheme.  BUT: Our recent  energy audit revealed that we can still do better by turning off the printer and PC’s, and cutting down on international travel and taxi journeys. So this is where we hope to make our 10% carbon savings.      Why not join us in the challenge? Here we go!

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Setting Wind Industry Standards

Industry giant Vergnet has listed Aerotrope among the field’s most important design-, modelling- and engineering consultants: synonymous with setting standards for the wind industry’s rapid technological evolution. We are proud to be named Vergnet’s main partners alongside Garrad Hassan, Germanischer Lloyd and DEWI.

Aerotrope always strives to provide nothing less than excellent independent consultancy to the wind industry. Director Chris Hornzee-Jones started out as blade design engineer when the industry was in its infancy, and this year he is celebrating 20 years of continuous involvement in the renewables sector.

A list of Aerotrope’s clients and selected wind industry projects is available on request.

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Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy

Aerotrope was invited to the exclusive opening of Anish Kapoor’s major show at the Royal Academy in London. We were excited to see three of our projects assembled in one place- a first! Those works engineered by Aerotrope created a real buzz in the audience and in the media- most notably “Shooting into a Corner” (‘grease gun’) and “Svayambh” (‘grease train’), as well as the brand new rusted steel sculpture called “Hive”. We are immensely proud to have contributed to this major British art event.

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Flights of Fancy

Aerotrope engineers spent one weekend’s sunny day training their eyes at Shoreham Airshow. This was aeronautics at its most playful, great for studying some ‘atypical behaviour’ of  wings in the wind-  something that will come in handy for our more unusual current projects. Above a snap of the excellent Red Devils parachute team.

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Glider Aerobatics

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  Have a look at this video we shot at Shoreham Airshow!

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