Create NSW’s 11 properties provide affordable spaces to over 100 arts, screen and cultural organisations. Providing affordable spaces and reducing energy costs allows our creative tenants to focus their resources on delivering exhibitions, performances and locally-produced screen content to the people of NSW.
Sustainably powering the arts and cultural sector
Create NSW Infrastructure (Property) is on track to achieve its Net Zero Pathway target of 90% reduction in energy consumption by 2030, and the NSW Government’s Net Zero by 2050.
Last financial year, the Property Team delivered a number of projects to reduce energy consumption and costs. Some notable examples include:
One Canal Road
- installed rooftop solar systems
- installed two electric vehicle charging stations at One Canal Road
- fluorescent lighting changed to LED lighting in internal communal areas
91 Canal Road
- installed rooftop solar systems
- fluorescent lighting changed to LED lighting in common areas and Building 19 Level 3
The Arts Exchange
- LED lighting and audio visual upgrades
- commenced the box gutter replacement to reduce climate risk during heavy rainfall
- heritage window restoration
Roslyn Packer Theatre
Towards Net Zero
The recent projects are just part of the work already undertaken or planned to transform Create NSW properties' energy footprint and achieve Net Zero. Other works include:
- Upgraded the rooftop solar systems on The Gunnery and Walsh Bay Arts Precinct
- Planned new rooftop solar system installed at Carriageworks (due for completion by June 2025)
- Upgrades to change remaining fluorescent lighting to LED lighting across the property portfolio
Heritage preservation
Our commitment to preserve the State Heritage Listed assets under Create NSW's management and care involves ongoing works. The National Art School heritage sandstone perimeter wall continues to be carefully restored by the Minister’s Stoneworks Program. This program not only preserves heritage buildings and walls it also teaches the skills needed to continue this bespoke trade into the future. Water ingress prevention and rectification is taken very seriously across the portfolio to prevent damage to heritage fabric. At Carriageworks, repairs to the heritage floor pits (which were used to repair trains from underneath) and the huge timber perimeter doors is underway.
Delivering for Arts, Culture and Creative Industries
Other significant improvements completed include:
- New kitchenette in Building 2 to improve tenant amenity at One Canal Road.
- Site signage upgrade at One Canal Road to improve wayfinding for deliveries and visitors, as well as new landscaping, to lift the professional image of the site
- Security system upgrade to support precinct management and protect tenants, and clean up and re-fencing of the rear tenancy for new uses, at One Canal Road.
- Floor coverings, new loading dock safety lines, and acoustic panelling upgrade, at Roslyn Packer Theatre.
- Walsh Bay Arts Precinct timber kerbs replacement and comprehensive piling condition report.
- new fire doors to support an increase in patron capacity, and replacing the entry metal grates to improve safety at Carriageworks.
- a new first aid and breastfeeding room at The Arts Exchange.
- commencement of a lift modernisation and external paint work at The Gunnery.
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