Green performance: making cultural buildings sustainable 10.10.23

Associate Director Will Mesher was recently invited to join an NLA panel talk: Green performance: making cultural buildings sustainable, alongside Buro Happold and Heyne Tillet Steel. Using our Theatr Clwyd project as a case study, Will presented our sustainable approach, where existing spaces will be upgraded and insulated to allow the theatre to run on 100% renewable electricity via Air Source Heat Pumps, LED lighting and extensive on-site PVs. The project aims to be an exemplar of 21st century cultural space.

Thank you to the NLA and fellow panel members, it was a pleasure to be part of an interesting and engaging evening, sharing our expertise to further the conversation on the challenges of retrofitting theatres, museums and cultural venues and their flexible and operational needs in the long-term.

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