Future-proof your commercial cultivation operation by understanding the best practices for designing, installing, and operating HVAC and dehumidification systems to manage moisture, temperature and air circulation. This seminar is designed to provide craft cultivators in Northern California climates, and their design and construction project partners, with what they need to know to stay competitive and comply with regulations. Experts in resource efficient production will present on high performance HVAC and dehumidification equipment to maintain the environmental conditions needed for optimal plant growth and development, upcoming code changes, utility incentive programs, and strategies to increase productivity in plant production operations. The audience will participate in a discussion where attendees can get answers to questions about growing and saving money with energy-efficient HVAC and dehumidification equipment.
Topical areas include:
Importance of HVAC design in craft operations
Typical HVAC system choices for craft growers in greenhouse and indoor cultivations
Selecting efficient target environmental conditions
Estimating HVAC loads and sizing HVAC equipment for greenhouses and indoor
Common HVAC mistakes in craft cultivations
Commissioning and maintenance considerations for craft cultivators
Working with your utility and maximizing incentives
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| California Efficient Yields PG&E Workshop 6: Efficient HVAC + Dehumidification Strategies for Craft Cultivation Operations (17.2 MB) | Download | ||
Dan Dettmers joined Quest 4 years ago with a 20+ year background in food/pharma processing, industrial refrigeration and HVAC infrastructure design. For 15 of those years Dan moonlighted at his own hop farm, the other member of the cannabacea family. With his partners, they developed a business that covered every aspect from plant propagation to final pelletization of the hops for their brewery customers. They even designed and built harvesting and drying equipment for others joining the industry.
Dan’s primary duty at Quest is to help the Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) industry solve their climate control problems to increase the productivity of their farms and quality of their products. He also works in R&D developing new products for Quest, sits on several industry standard writing bodies, and provides technical training both in and outside of the company.
Josh Gerovac is a horticulture scientist and founder of the consultancy Symbiescent Crop Advisor. His broad work experience includes Grower at the 30-acre wholesale floriculture greenhouse, Heartland Growers and Horticulture Scientist for Fluence Bioengineering. He was Head of Cultivation for Clade9, a renowned California cannabis breeding and cultivation facility, and Director of Cultivation for OutCo, where he collaborated with esteemed cannabis scientist, Dr. Allison Justice. He has a Bachelor of Science in Horticulture Production and Marketing, and a Master of Science in Horticulture, both from Purdue University. His research and practice is focused on the influence of light intensity and spectral light quality from sole-source LEDs on growth, morphology, and nutrient content of edible, ornamental, and medicinal crop production.
With over 35 years of experience in the design and construction of building systems, Jim Megerson leads the firm while keeping current with issues of building systems design, including indoor controlled environments for agriculture, energy efficiency standards and green building practices.
During college, Jim completed a sheet metal worker apprenticeship program where he gained invaluable knowledge in the fabrication and installation of sheet metal products, HVAC equipment and associated hardware for large commercial, material handling and clean room applications.
This combines world class engineering knowledge along with hands-on, tool belt wearing experience to balancing design, construction cost, operations & maintenance to achieve the best return on the owner’s HVACD investment.
Jim provides project management, HVACD engineering and quality control on our cultivation and manufacturing projects.