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Your facility's design is the single largest factor in long-term cannabis profitability. Poor environmental control, inefficient workflows, and mismatched systems don't just limit yield — they compound costs for the life of your operation. Urth & Fyre brings over a decade of hands-on cannabis facility design experience and more than 1,000,000 square feet of completed projects to every engagement.
The difference between a profitable cannabis operation and one that bleeds money often comes down to decisions made before the first seed is planted. General contractors without cannabis-specific expertise routinely make mistakes that cost operators millions: undersized HVAC systems that can't maintain VPD targets, lighting layouts that create uneven canopy coverage, irrigation designs that don't scale, and floor plans that create workflow bottlenecks every harvest cycle.
Cannabis is a controlled environment agriculture crop — every environmental parameter directly impacts yield, quality, and consistency. Temperature, humidity, CO2, airflow, light intensity, and irrigation must all be precisely engineered and integrated. When these systems are designed by people who understand cannabis cultivation at a deep level, the facility becomes a profit engine. When they're not, you spend years and hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to fix problems that should have been solved on paper.
We design and optimize every system that impacts your cultivation environment and operational efficiency. Our facility design services include ground-up construction design for new cannabis facilities, tenant improvements and retrofits for existing spaces, environmental control system design including HVAC, dehumidification, and CO2 enrichment, LED lighting specification with PPFD mapping and light plan optimization, irrigation and fertigation system planning, electrical and mechanical engineering coordination, workflow and room configuration for maximum space utilization, processing and extraction facility layout, and shipping container and modular grow system design.
We don't just draw plans — we coordinate with your architects, engineers, and contractors as your owner's representative, ensuring every system is specified correctly and works together. The goal isn't a building with plants in it. It's a precision-controlled growing environment engineered to hit specific yield, quality, and cost targets from day one.
Step 1: Goals and Assessment. We start by understanding your production targets, budget constraints, timeline, and market position. Whether you're building 5,000 square feet or 50,000, the process begins with clarity on what the facility needs to produce and at what cost.
Step 2: Conceptual Design. We develop room layouts, system specifications, and workflow plans that align with your production goals. This phase includes environmental control strategy, lighting plans, irrigation design, and preliminary equipment selection.
Step 3: Detailed Engineering Coordination. We coordinate HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and structural engineering to ensure all systems integrate properly. Cannabis facilities have unique engineering requirements that general construction teams frequently miss — we make sure nothing falls through the cracks.
Step 4: Construction Coordination. We serve as your owner's representative during construction, reviewing work quality, verifying system installations, and catching problems before they become expensive change orders.
Step 5: Commissioning and Optimization. Once construction is complete, we commission all systems, verify environmental performance, and support your team through the first harvest cycles — dialing in the facility to hit its designed performance targets.
Our facility design work has produced measurable, documented outcomes across multiple operations and facility types. Over 1,000,000 square feet of cannabis cultivation facilities designed and renovated. Shipping container program: 269% yield increase from 13 to 35 lbs per container, driving annual revenue from $1.75M to $4.7M. Room production optimization: 347% yield increase from 23 to 80 lbs per room, growing annual revenue from $1.5M to $5.4M. Ground-up facility builds achieving high THC content and efficient production costs from the very first harvest cycle.
These results come from facilities where every system — HVAC, lighting, irrigation, workflow — was designed to work together as an integrated cultivation environment, not pieced together from disconnected vendor recommendations.
Indoor single-tier and multi-tier vertical cultivation facilities. Greenhouses and mixed-light operations. Shipping container and modular grow systems. Processing, extraction, and post-harvest labs. Nursery and propagation facilities. Each facility type has distinct environmental, mechanical, and workflow requirements. Our experience across all of these formats means we bring cross-pollinated insights to every project — lessons learned from shipping container efficiency applied to indoor rooms, greenhouse lighting strategies adapted for indoor supplemental applications, and processing workflows designed to scale.
Costs vary based on facility size, scope, and whether you're building new or retrofitting. Cannabis facility buildouts typically range from $150 to $500+ per square foot depending on complexity. We provide detailed financial modeling so you understand total CapEx, projected ROI, and timeline to profitability before construction begins. Contact us for a free facility assessment to get a project-specific estimate.
Both. A significant portion of our work involves optimizing existing operations — identifying environmental control issues, improving room utilization, upgrading lighting and irrigation, and implementing SOPs that reduce costs and increase yield. Our case studies demonstrate results like 269% yield increases and 985% ROI through facility optimization, not just new construction.
A focused optimization of an existing facility can show measurable results within 30-60 days. Ground-up facility design typically takes 3-6 months from concept to construction-ready plans. We build detailed project timelines during the initial consultation.
Whether you're planning a new build, retrofitting an existing space, or trying to understand why your current facility isn't performing, the first step is a conversation. Our free facility assessment gives you a clear-eyed evaluation of your operation and a roadmap for improvement — no obligation, no sales pressure.
Contact Urth & Fyre to schedule your assessment. Call us, email info@urthandfyre.com, or use the contact form on this site. We work with operations nationwide and internationally.
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