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Business resilience themes: Premises, People, Processes

Business Profile

Film City Glasgow is a vital production base for much of the feature film and television industry within Scotland.

The facilities comprise of production office space, studio/build space, workshop areas, rehearsal/meeting rooms, a café and creative business officers. It is home to over 25 permanent tenants from the screen and wider creative industries. It also has flexible low-cost short-term space hire. Users of the space include Film City Glasgow workers, tenants, short term production teams, freelancers, interns, and occasionally members of the public.

The core of the site is the Victoria-era former Govan Town Hall, a Category B listed building. The redevelopment of the site has retained many of the original features of the building. A new extension was added in 2008.

Film City Glasgow building. A Victorian era building, with a dark cloudy background

Climate impacts

Film City Glasgow is exposed to a number of climate risks which have affected the businesses operations in recent years . These include:

Actions taken

In 2023 Film City Glasgow took part in a pilot project as part of Glasgow City Council’s Green Business Support programme, which helps local companies transition to Net-Zero, reduce their energy costs and become more resilient to climate change.

As part of this project, the sustainability charity Sniffer supported Film City Glasgow to understand its climate risks and prioritise the resilience actions the business can take. These included:

“I wasn’t really sure what to expect, but the holistic approach to climate resilience was a breath of fresh air. We’ve been looking at building fabric, retrofit, and undertaken net zero training recently. But the resilience approach brought in other experiential considerations including the individuals working in the facility and their support and health and safety requirements. Also, illuminating on how the wider area interfaces with our building and thinking on climate resilience should be beyond our four walls.”

Tiernan Kelly, Director, Film City Glasgow