An entrepreneur's 9 step guide to CEA facility design

Agritecture meets tons of entrepreneurs with strong business skills or technology prowess, but they often lack the technical knowledge on commercial construction, biological systems or food safety to plan their operations effectively - or vice versa - those with technical expertise who are missing the business piece. The complexity of launching a business and building out a food-producing facility that is highly efficient, consistent, and safe is precisely why indoor farming poses so many unique startup challenges. 

Farm planning expert Agritecture and facility design expert Surna Cultivation Technologies approach facility design in three main phases: pre-planning, design and operations.

Having served over 800 cultivators, with over 200 of them being large, commercial projects, Surna has a deep understanding of the key facility elements that foster a successful indoor grow. According to Surna, this experience in cultivation facility design, construction, climate management and facility operation allows them to help cultivators meet their goals by analyzing options for their facility, engineering carefully curated cultivation technologies into holistically-designed solutions, and providing the chosen technologies that maximize their success.

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Editor's note: Agritecture will be publishing more content about facility design in partnership with Surna Cultivation Technologies. Read the first blog post on how to make it or break it with your HVAC systems HERE, and register for the follow-up webinar with these indoor farming experts on May 25th, 2022, HERE.

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Source: Agritecture