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Environmental Placements

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8 week work placements for West Lothian companies The Environmental Placement Programme (EPP) is an effective way of delivering cost benefits to companies whilst at the same time providing university students with valuable in-company experience. Run in association with the Shell Technology Enterprise Programme (STEP) and with further private sector sponsorship, almost 50 undergraduate placement projects have identified more than £600,000 worth of cost savings for West Lothian firms since the programme was first run in 1998.
 
Students are put through training workshops and closely supervised to ensure that the business objectives of the project are met and cost savings are implemented. For more information on this programme please click on the link below to the BEP's EPP information page: The Business Environment Partnership (BEP) - Placements or contact Donald Rose, (t) 01506 777 921 or Email: donald@thebep.org.uk
 

2005 Environmental Placements

This summer, students conducted projects at fencing manufacturers, Wright and MacLennan, at Edgar Allen’s foundry in Bathgate, and at Oatridge College in Ecclesmachan. In addition, students David Bruce (pictured right) and David Bruce (pictured right) and Alistair Trail (left) Alistair Trail (left) worked with the Business Environment Partnership at the Enterprise Centre to undertake two projects at local industrial estates.

David Bruce, currently working towards his BSc in geography at Edinburgh University, worked on a project at Burnhouse Industrial Estate in Whitburn, focusing on energy efficiency and the feasibility of mains gas installation.

Meanwhile Alistair Trail took time out of his MSc course in Sustainable Process Management at Heriot-Watt to focus on waste minimisation and general environmental management at Whiteside Industrial Estate in Bathgate.

EPP placements provide an excellent opportunity for businesses to identify efficiency improvements and reduce their environmental impacts. They also provide valuable experience to the students, and several have gone on to be offered permanent employment by their host companies.

 
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