Two former East Kilbride students working at aerospace engineering company have just completed a sustainable energy project that is so effective it is set to be rolled out.Design engineering graduate apprentices Scout Horan and Sam Morton, who attended St Andrew's and St Bride's High School in East Kilbride and Hamilton College respectively, are based at Leonardo in Edinburgh.Working as members of a wider team of apprentices, Sam and Scout conducted a study in the Receiver Lab at Leonardo, to investigate the potential to reduce energy consumption on site.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.
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