GrowUp Farms
C.C. Contracting were delighted to secure the contract to build this new facility at Discovery Park near Sandwich in Kent. Pepperness is the first large-scale, vertical farm for London based, GrowUp, their largest facility to date and their first outside London.
It was important to GrowUp to use a brownfield site and we took the site from that state right through to construction of the purpose-built, steel-framed building to house the state-of-the-art, controlled-environment, vertical farm which provides the equivalent of 1000 acres of Grade 1 farmland. GrowUp's desire to minimise their carbon footprint is further enhanced by the on-site renewable energy at Discovery Park which also drives down the costs of vertical farming.
Budget
6,800,000
Area
9,000
Completed
Dec '22
The distinctive gradated panels of the cladding.
The vertical farm units start to be installed.
With growing trays on multiple layers reaching over five meters from the floor the facility provides the equivalent of 1000 acres.
LED lighting can be exactly calibrated to provide the optimum lighting for each variety of plant.
Sterile conditions mean that there are no pests to control and no requirement to wash the produce.
LED lighting has massively reduced the energy needed to provide summer light conditions all year round.
C.C.Contracting are a fantastic partner for GrowUp Farms. We have used C.C.C for a wide range of projects across the UK and they have shown their ability to meet critical timelines and follow budget forecasts accurately.