How does a Formula 1 team like Alpine based in a facility that opened in the 1990s keep it state-of-the-art in a world where technology moves at an unabated pace?
– the site grew in a piecemeal fashion as the team tried to keep up with rivals. Investment stalled in the Lotus/Genii era, but new impetus came when Renault bought back the team.
"We have a duty to improve and curate the site, and we treat all of the impacts of our activity here very seriously. "We're by far the biggest local employer, and we're a prestige brand in the heart of a very beautiful part of England. It's definitely a responsibility to juggle those plates. "We've fixed the roof; it no longer leaks when it rains! But also we've massively improved the insulation, which is good for our energy consumption, and for our carbon footprint."We've electrified the space heating on the whole site using high-efficiency heat pumps, so there's no gas or old-fashioned direct electric heating. We've developed strategies along the way that I sincerely believe help us with making it a good place to work.
"We've generated another 700-plus square metres of floor space by the addition of a third storey on an existing two-storey building," says White."We've effectively put a new third storey on stilts above it."This is a new composite production facility.
"I don't want to over-egg that, because it's just part of what we do. When we built the existing simulator building, which opened a long time ago, it already had a small-scale PV installation. That's now closer to the end of its life than it is to the beginning. But this new extension will be properly net zero."
"We learned some things during COVID that we applied; we were well ahead of the curve in terms of how to operate buildings safely during COVID. And some of those lessons have transferred into our plans going forward.""We paid a lot of attention to the asks of the people that would be working there," says White."It's like some of the challenges when designing the race car, you've got a multi-dimensional optimisation to do.
"Fundamentally, we've done the classic stuff, we've de-partitioned, we've opened it all up, and we've brought daylight in to disrupt siesta time! A more efficient desk arrangement may sound a little esoteric, but this is a sport of marginal gains, and no stone can be left unturned."Every design, development, infrastructure change, everything that we do is driven by lap time, extracting performance or improvements in race outcomes that are converted into points," says White.
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