- Utilisation of 100% green electricity
- Insulation of dome construction and 80% of the flat roof
- Extensive use of LED lighting
- Use of clean water in the outdoor area (extinguishing pond & watering the green areas)
- Green office: cloud-based IT, paperless accounting & project management
- Preferential cooperation with regional service providers
- Implementation of waste separation concepts
- Use of reusable cups & reusable crockery with deposit system in the catering sector
- Offering vegan, vegetarian & regional dishes
- Cleaning concept via the ‘Clean Goes Green’ programme
- Green outdoor area: 407 trees, flower beds, shrubs, hedges, meadows
Sustainability begins with a scrutinising look inwards. In our quick check, we show excerpts from our inventory of steps towards greater sustainability in the areas of the environment, social affairs and corporate governance that we have already taken at the Jahrhunderthalle.
- Balanced gender ratio of employees
- Social counselling and support services for employees: "Talking time for you" and Themis
- Possibility of flexitime, part-time and remote working
- Company bike for employees
- Company pension scheme for employees
- Training and further education programmes and trade fair visits
- Training company for event technology specialists
- Practice partner for dual students in event management & live entertainment
- Gender language & signature pronouns
- Donations to charitable organisations
- Accessibility: wheelchair spaces, lift, disabled parking spaces & disabled WC
- Targeted deployment of trained “German Red Cross” (GRC) specialists in the field of psychosocial emergency care
- Transparent employee communication in the form of regular team briefings
- Provision of an internal reporting centre (Whistleblower Protection Act)
- Data protection training
- Team events
At regular intervals, we set ourselves milestones and evaluate projects that we would like to realise.
Our current goals: By July 2026, we want to achieve further measurable progress as an event centre - environmentally, socially and structurally.
On this page, we show you what we are working on: Which measures we have already initiated, which we are specifically planning - and which milestones we want to achieve.
We are currently working on these points:
- Create incentives for travelling by public transport
- Reduce furniture transport by creating attractive dressing rooms for artists
- Reduction of transport by purchasing own grilles & entrance gates
- Further feasibility studies of CO₂ reduction in touring
- Conversion of taps in the public area to a water stop system
- Introduction of compostable disposable tableware in the catering sector
- Reduction of paper consumption by promoting digital alternatives
- Improvement of waste separation concept also in the backstage area
- Increased exchange with suppliers & service providers for more sustainable business practices together
- Transparent communication & sensitisation internally and externally
- Development of the awareness concept for concerts
- Awareness training for employees
- Expansion of accessibility before, during and after events
- Expansion of accessibility in club car parks & club toilets
- Cyber awareness training for employees
- Ecological upgrading of the outdoor area
- Partnership with WILDE WÄLDER