Facility Design

Virginia will issue up to 60 cannabis processing licenses under HB 642. This checklist covers every critical design, safety, HVAC, layout, equipment, quality, and compliance decision for new Virginia processing facility operators — so you build it right and pass CCA inspection the first time.

Every Virginia cannabis cultivation license applicant needs a compliant, inspection-ready facility design before breaking ground. This 47-point checklist covers site selection, HVAC, lighting, irrigation, security, materials, and compliance documentation — built around Virginia's CCA regulatory requirements.

Virginia's adult-use cannabis market opens July 2026 with up to 450 cultivation licenses and 60 processing licenses. Urth & Fyre specializes in designing, building, and optimizing cannabis facilities for new market entrants — with 1,000,000+ sq ft of completed work and documented 985% ROI results.

Plan a compliant cannabis processing facility layout with better room sequencing, material flow, contamination control and equipment placement.

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.