Designing a 15000sqft facility....please help

Hello everyone,

So this is my first time posting on rollitup so please be patient with my inexperience. So basically i'm designing a 15000 sqft mmj facility in Canada and I have a question about the veg and flowering rooms. Were planning to provide about 7 to 10 different strain of Cannabis. I am currently dealing with a mmj consultant and he has suggested that we have a 1200sqft room for each strain and use that room for both veg and flowering. His reasoning is that by doing this we will not need to move the plants around and therefore save a lot of work. I'd love to hear what you guys think.


Thanks.

I wouldn't want to move that many plants around.

hell man, i dunno what your consultant charges but i'll charge less

He charged 10G's actually. That's for help attained a Health Canada production license and some general grow design ideas.

We're planning to do a hydroponics setup top drip design. I always imagined that I would have 1 large Veg room and a few Flowering rooms and then when the plants are ready Id move them into a flowering room. But then the consultant suggested Veging and flowering in the same room.

If you need to he told what to do you should just hire someone that does. Your gonna get a lot of bad advice.

The consultant is just a substitute for experience and a poor one at that.

individual rooms would also allow for easy isolation in case there were an pest infestation @ some point too.

sure, one big veg area may be more efficient lighting/nutrient wise but moving that many plants? A lot of work bro.

how many people are you figuring it will take to run this thing?

Well we are planning to hire a master grower as well. Part of the licensing process is we need to have blueprints of the facility. At this stage were putting a proposal together for the license.

Well, reaching max capacity will take time and will happen in stages. At max capacity I can see 15-20 people employed at a minimum

shawa said:

Well we are planning to hire a master grower as well. Part of the licensing process is we need to have blueprints of the facility. At this stage were putting a proposal together for the license.

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Your master grower should be involved in planning.

with that many I'd say you would have the manpower to move stuff around. but I would try to get away with less...and less moving for an op of that size personally.

never been involved in anything that large though...

snaps..whatcha think?

Well were definitely going to be in the market for a top notch master grower. The facility wont be up for a min of about 8 more months. Were hoping to be able to design a facility so that we can have a Production license submission. Once we get conditional approval we would then begin construction of the warehouse and the hiring process would begin. In the mean time, we need to have a design. Its almost ready, just ironing out the details.

in 8 months from now we will be in the market for a top notch master grower.

Remember, top notch master growers need top notch pay to perform.

I'm sure there will be no shortage of "top notch master grower" applicants from here on riu.

what is the going rate for this position?

Yes, were aware of that. Have had a lot of inquiries already. As well, the consultant is suppose to help in this process. I have a 10,000 sqft layout as we were initially planning a 10,000 sqft facility but weve now changed to a 15,000sqft. The layout will be similar to the following design...

you forcing everyone to shower in/out? I would.

No not shower, but must change into work shoes that stay at work , work coat, head covering, and gloves.

I'd make em shower in anyway. People could have mites/rootaphids/ anything on their person. Especially if they garden or have done yard work that day.

biosecurity is no joke. Especially for something of this size.

I would think the consultant would mention this.

Yep. Shower in with lockers.

Reason, mold spores, virus.

Changing clothes might stop bugs mostly but not the mold and virus.

BTW ; I consult for several dispensaries in Colorado. Biggest problem I have, not being listened to.