Experience · Agriculture

Operating depth, shown on built projects.

Agriculture is one area of the firm's operating experience, not its identity. These ten projects are shown as source records: what was found, what was examined and how it was approached.

Agriculture · Training and knowledge transfer

A farm built to teach, which makes operations the first variable.

Participated with an NGO to establish an educational platform for younger generation farmers.

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Agriculture · Desert climate adaptation

At a million square metres of desert, the structure is the climate.

Single tunnel greenhouse for desert growing, with protection from sand and film that reflects infrared and ultraviolet.

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Agriculture · Dual layer hydroponic productivity

Yield per square metre, answered with a second layer instead of more land.

With an Australian grower, set up to increase yield per square metre with a dual layer hydroponic system.

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Agriculture · Indoor vertical research

A high value crop on three decks, where light and vertical space are the design.

Prototype research and development on red ginseng using a Venlo type glass greenhouse with a three deck vertical system.

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Agriculture · Climate controlled research

Research crops need a climate that holds, not a yield that peaks.

A Venlo type glass greenhouse climate control system for pharmaceutical crops, for research by the University of Alberta.

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Agriculture · Labour automation

When labour is the cost, automation is an operating decision before it is a technology.

An automated bench system to counter rising labour costs and reduce production costs.

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Agriculture · Water and irrigation

Water as a managed input, on a site where water decided everything.

Rainwater collection and single tunnel growing of tomatoes using drip irrigation.

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Agriculture · Food safety operating system

A family operation whose real product was an operating system.

Set up for a private family, whose operators were trained with a HACCP system and operating manual.

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Agriculture · Build, operate and transfer

Built to be handed over, so the procedures mattered as much as the plants.

Built, operated and transferred a hydroponic pharmaceutical crop system to the company for its internal expansion into supplements.

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Agriculture · Market linked production

Production planned backwards from twelve retail doors.

An economical multi span greenhouse for a retail model, with Farm Direct distributing into 12 locations.

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