Case Studies – Sustainable Buildings
“The cultural sector has a unique ability to imagine and experiment with alternative futures, question the status quo, see the world differently and explore the future with audiences and participants. Without the cultural sector playing its part in helping current and future society to move towards a more sustainable way of life, this essential shift will not happen.”
Creative Carbon Scotland, 2020
Click below to find out about how each building worked with The Theatre Green Book
The Marlowe, Canterbury
The Marlowe discuss the benefits of getting their solar array installed.
Romiley Little Theatre
A local theatre company renovate an old council building, turning it into a rehearsal and performance space.
Narodni Divadlo (National Theatre Prague)
National Theatre Prague were able to halve their gas consumption without any rise in electricity consumption through a series of well-planned projects.
Salisbury Playhouse - Case Study
Salisbury Playhouse was built in 1976 and is the only producing theatre in Wiltshire, located in the town of Salisbury. It is a multi-use building-based venue operated by Wiltshire Creative.
National Taichung Theater
The NTT officially opened in 2016, and has actively enhanced its energy-saving systems, moving steadily towards becoming a smart and eco-friendly ‘Green Theater’.
National Theatre Scotland
Having been heavily involved in the development of the Theatre Green Book since its inception, NTS been hitting Intermediate standard on 70% of its Productions since 2022. Now they have been working on bringing their Operations and Building up to the same standard.
Royal Opera House: Thurrock
The Royal Opera House has recently refurbished and updated the ground source heat pump at the Bob and Tamar Manoukian Production Workshop in Thurrock.
Theatre Royal Plymouth
Recently the team at the Theatre Royal has undertaken a series of sustainable interventions ranging from seating refurbishment to replacement of lighting, and changes to its heating systems.
Dundee Rep
Dundee Rep discuss the various changes they have made to their building over recent years.
The Lowry, Salford
The Lowry worked to update their auditorium and stage lights in the Quays Theatre space.
Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury
The Roses Theatre used their building upgrades as an opportunity to embed sustainable changes.
Oxford Playhouse
Oxford Playhouse offered to trail the first version of the Theatre Green Book Building Survey Tool to help them focus on key sustainable building improvements for the theatre.
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre - Case Study
The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre is a performance venue operated by Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Management based in Guildford, Surrey.
Bush Theatre
The Bush Theatre used the Building Survey Tool to identify priorities for funding applications to improve the sustainability of their building.
Dundee Rep - Door Refurbishment
A brief PowerPoint on Dundee Rep’s door refurb
Wales Millennium Centre - Solar Panels
Wales Millennium Centre wanted to find a way to produce enough energy themselves, to power a 1,900-seat auditorium. Step forward solar!
Trafalgar Theatre - Case Study
The Trafalgar Theatre is a West End theatre in Whitehall near Trafalgar Square, in the City of Westminster, London. The venue was originally built in 1930 with interiors in the Art Deco style as the Whitehall Theatre.