The systems behind a controlled environment
Structure, climate, water, and control. Each one is a discipline in its own right, and they only work when designed as a single system.
Structure and envelope
The building is a climate instrument. Its height, venting, and covering decide how much work the machinery has to do afterwards.
Building design
Heat, humidity, and air
The goal is not a cool greenhouse, it is a crop that transpires steadily all day. That means managing heat, humidity, and carbon dioxide together.
Climate strategy
Water and nutrition
Water quality in, nutrition dialled in, drain water recovered. A closed water strategy is both the sustainable option and the economical one.
Water strategy
Control and closed systems
The layer that ties the rest together: control software, energy and water strategy, and fully closed production.
Control systemsReady to talk it through?
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