Sustainability

Our award-winning 42 acre manufacturing plant and headquarters symbolise the progressive and forward-thinking ethos of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.

Designed by leading architect, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw (who also designed the pioneering Eden Project) to sit in harmony with its outstandingly beautiful surroundings in West Sussex, the manufacturing plant was built between one and two metres below the surrounding ground level to blend the buildings within the landscape itself.

To further minimise the facility's visual impact natural stone and cedar wood cladding was used extensively while, from a distance, the adoption of a plant-covered 'living roof' ensures the buildings blend into the scenery.

By maximising the amount of natural light entering the building via large windows, roof lights and an impressive 'glass mile' that runs alongside the assembly area - the need for artificial lighting has been kept to a minimum.

Thanks to their high specification the thermal insulating properties the building's walls exceed the requirements of Building Regulations by some 25 per cent.