Wexford Opera House

Cultural organisation, Wexford, County Wexford

Wexford Opera House is a modern, recently built building opened in 2008. It has two theatres with good back-of-house facilities, and administration offices including marketing and general offices. Front of house are a reception area and ticket sales, a café/bar on the third floor, a bar on second floor, toilet facilities for public, and conference rooms. Back of house includes stage areas, dressing rooms for performers, dancers, and orchestras, rehearsal rooms, showers, baths, and various utilities rooms.

Wexford Opera House is keen to reduce their environmental footprint and have already taken steps to improve, and is participating in the Green Hospitality Eco Label Award Scheme. Greenbusiness was able to suggest various further measures to consider, with large potential environmental and cost savings.

The site visit identified a range of recommendations with good associated potential benefits including:

• Total cost savings of over €4,500 with many additional savings possible
• Save 855m³ of water by fitting dual flush controls in female toilets, fitting proximity sensors to urinals and fitting spray heads and reduce flow to wash basins.
• Save 16,000kWh per annum by adjusting external lights timer, fitting zone lighting sensors / switches and changing incandescent lamps in chorus rooms to more efficient CFLs.

Quote from Wexford Opera House: “Wexford Opera House was delighted to work in conjunction with Greenbusiness.ie as part of our overall efforts to Green the activities of Wexford Festival Opera. To date we have already made significant savings, and see the potential for further environmental improvements and cost savings”.

Read the Wexford Opera House RE document (PDF document)

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