Inside the Growth Tower: how we control the plant's environment
Added on 04 March 2025
Utilising innovative engineering to fine-tune plant growth
This article was written by Barry Anderson, Chief Engineer at IGS. Barry is based at our Engineering Innovation Centre, leading a team responsible for our product’s hardware. Taking a holistic – and, crucially, iterative – approach has seen Barry’s team design a product that can be scaled effectively across the world. Here’s how.
As Chief Engineer, I oversee the technical aspects of our vertical farming technology. Essentially, everything you can physically touch, I'm responsible for. Our Growth Towers need to facilitate optimal conditions for cultivating plants, whether a customer is using it to grow crops from seed-to-harvest, or as part of a hybrid approach and growing starter plants.
The heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system is one of its most essential elements. A few aspects make this stand out in agritech engineering, notably its closed-loop design, how it interacts with the living crop, its modularity, and how it allows growers to scale their operations. These all allow IGS customers to grow pest- and disease-free, healthy, consistent plants across the year.
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