The most successful, high-tech indoor, vertical, and greenhouse cultivation projects in the country use integrated project teams and commissioning to define project goals, identify risks early, save time, and reduce costs. In this webcast, session leaders deliver a deep dive into emerging energy codes, programming requirements for growing and processing spaces, future proofing considerations for flexibility and resilience, and engaging utility and efficiency programs. They provide tips for navigating the planning, post-occupancy, and validation stages of facility design and construction for controlled environment agriculture.

State and local regulatory requirements are changing rapidly and it is critical to set the foundation for your internal compliance programs early to reduce risk. Jennifer Germano details compliance tools and standards including self-auditing, third-party audits, operational training, and building the right team and skill-sets. She demonstrates how to build a robust a compliance program including documentation management, how to manage compliance inspections from state and local regulators, and ensuring you're utilizing environmental control methods and OSHA standards. 

View this webcast before embarking on your next cannabis facility project to improve operational efficiencies, avoid costly design missteps, and prevent expensive, schedule-busting changes during (and after) construction. Luz Elena Parra offers guidance on pre-design architectural and engineering considerations including data and information gathering, key team member inputs, operational considerations, and GMP standards that must be deliberated upfront. She demonstrates the advantages and disadvantages of greenhouse, outdoor, and indoor cultivation, and illustrates successful designs for equipment, people, and material workflow

Value engineering – a systematic, organized approach to providing necessary functions at the lowest cost – can be consequential to your next cannabis facility project design, engineering, and construction budget. Will Goodin details the cannabis facility value engineering process and details how it can foster the substitution of materials and methods with less expensive alternatives without sacrificing functionality. He uses case studies of recent cannabis facility projects to illustrate how value engineering was used to reduce both capital and operating expenditures.