Alquimi Renewables and its technology group Island AgTech , together with its strategic engineering partner Sprung Structures , based in Calgary , Alberta , have finalized evolution of the first fully certified Category 5 hurricane resistant greenhouse and blackhouse applications .
Greenhouse project in the Caribbean : Each structure is 90 ’ x 375’fora total of 135,000 sf and all Category 5 hurricane denounce .
Secure investmentThe greenhouse social system have been specifically engineered to secure investment in the first commercial-grade scale protected farming product in region incessantly threatened by mood variety and cyclonal weather condition events including hurricane and typhoons . The company is focalize on islands in the Caribbean and Pacific as well as affect US regions . The customized growhouse system will suffer all form of hydroponic classification as well as grunge - based husbandry and aesculapian marijuana production .
Sprung has been in procedure for over 100 age , and has built over 12,000 structures in over 90 country using their proprietary distressed - membrane engineering science . Many of those buildings were build to Cat5 standards and proved perdurable through actual hurricane and typhoon events . Alquimi and Island AgTech run with the Sprung squad to grow the greenhouse and blackhouse coating to stand firm the worst cyclonic wind event .
“ In 2017 we introduced a family 4 rated greenhouse arrangement , but after the hurricane event in the Caribbean in late 2017 our investor and insurance underwriter made it exonerated that any greenhouse infrastructure needed to fit Category 5 construction codes and we ’re very excited to have reach that ” , state Ralph Birkhoff , one of the founding partners of Alquimi .
Three acre ‘ moving-picture show on frame ’ greenhouse arrangement destroyed by Hurricane Irma . Sept. 2017 , Tortola , BVI .
In addition , Alquimi has been turn with other US partner and successfully engineered an desegregate rooftop solar regalia for both the greenhouse and blackhouse systems . This allows food and energy output to occur on the same land site which has lineal fiscal implications in US and Gallic territories where farming demesne employ restriction and solar revenue enhancement credits are offer . It also reduces useable energy monetary value in island still strung-out on fossil fuel - base electrical generation where free energy price are very gamy , and can even roleplay as part of a micro - grid .
The greenhouse structures are also offer with specialised evaporative cooling , humidity control , and shading system of rules where mellow temperature affect rise conditions .
The Caribbean region currently imports over 80 % of its fresh produce need , and that demand is growing due to increased resort maturation and lifestyle change . “ By deputise this food production and growing topically through hydroponic growing systems , we will be able to deliver mellow volumes of organic quality food with high nutrient substance at a militant cost to imports . This will have a unmediated and positive impact on the reducing of the logistical carbon paper footmark , reduction of food for thought waste , provide longer production shelf life-time , improve the touristry dining experience , and in the longer condition amend the health of all local occupier . ”
Alquimi / Island AgTech ’s blackhouse system were designed specifically to support the chop-chop expanding global medical cannabis industry . The growhouses come to the full insulated with customized sizes to underpin all mannequin of growing operations and can be built within weeks . “ We are getting interrogation from across Canada and the US legalized states , but in the islands like Puerto Rico and Jamaica where a Cat5 rating is required , our systems will be the key to speedy expansion ” .
Alquimi has projects underway across the Caribbean , Pacific , and US mainland . The company think to “ break up the current food supplying chain and produce local ” through its proprietary technologies .
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