Facility Design

A poorly designed cannabis processing facility layout creates compliance failures, workflow bottlenecks, and avoidable CAPEX. This guide covers room sequencing, contamination control, equipment placement, and the design decisions that drive long-term margin.

The materials you build with determine how cleanable your facility is for its entire operational life. This guide covers the material decisions that most directly affect microbial outcomes — walls, floors, benching, HVAC, and irrigation — for both new builds and retrofit scenarios.

NFPA 496 in plain language: how purged and pressurized panels work, what inspectors check, and how to design an extraction room that passes the first time.