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What We Love to See – Seasonal Community Special
When you spend a lot of time in cannabis facilities, you see a lot - Great decisions, short-sighted decisions, over-built facilities, under-built facilities - the whole gamut. It's easy to walk into a facility and immediately start focusing on everything that could be...
6 Operational Design Tips to Enhance Security – without causing bottlenecks
Security is of course vital in a cannabis operation; for employee comfort and safety, to protect highly valuable products, to remain compliant, and to prevent diversion. But I’ve been in too many facilities where security is overbearing and whether as a customer or an...
VIDEO: How many flower rooms is best in commercial cannabis cultivation facility design
There is a science behind designing your commercial cannabis cultivation facility. Your facility design should be built upon your operational design which should be foundationally supported by your business model. What questions need to be answered to design the...
VIDEO: How to add vape cart production to your cannabis facility
There's a science to adding or installing vape cart manufacturing into your cannabis or hemp facility. It's not as easy as allocating space. You must first consider your business model which then drives your operational design which can then inform your facility...
What is Operational Design vs. Facility Design?
Failure to consider and give proper attention to operational design often explains why companies with cutting edge facilities and well written SOPs still end up unable to compete or to combat price compression once the market saturates. What is operational design as...
The importance of having completely sealed grow rooms
Sealing your grow room is one of the most overlooked and yet, most important details to get right during construction or renovation of your facility. This holds true for all indoor cannabis cultivation facilities and climate controlled greenhouses for cannabis. I’ve...
How Many Employees Do I Need To Cultivate Cannabis Commercially?
This is a question that I am often asked either at the beginning stages of building a financial model or by someone who has invested in a cannabis company and is trying to determine if their overhead is too high. Understandably, there’s no one formula for answering...
How To Select A General Contractor for your Cannabis Manufacturing Facility
This article is intended for the investor who may be investing in a new cannabis cultivation facility or for the executive team who is in the early stages of design and build out of their new cannabis manufacturing and extraction facility. For the purposes of this...
How To Select a General Contractor for your Cannabis Cultivation Facility
This article is intended for the investor who may be investing in a new cannabis cultivation facility or for the executive team who is in the early stages of design and build out of their new cannabis cultivation facility. I have a related article titled, “How to...
What is Canopy Ratio? And why should you care?
Canopy ratio is a cannabis cultivation term that I have been using for five years or so and I’ve not seen many other cannabis professionals use it or another term that means the same thing. So what is it and how do we measure it? To use some round numbers to...
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