Facility Highlights

Facility Highlights

Year Built: 1993
Greenhouse Square Footage: 15,150 (24 rooms)
Manufacturer: Rough Brothers
Environmental Control System: Argus retrofit 2011, previous system QCom
Structure: Aluminum and glass (Solatex)
Equipment: Heating: hot water, perimeter fin-tube, Modine heaters in hallways
                   Cooling: Acme exhaust fans, Munter's pads, small rooms have Arvin unit swamp coolers
                   Ventilation: vent motors-Lock Drives, Wadsworth, Ridder
                                      HAFs: Schaefer replaced 2014, previous Jaderloon
                   Lighting: GE 400w metal halide
                                  PL 1000w metal halide and HPS (2 rooms)
                   Shading: Wadsworth system, fabric LS Svensson Harmony 60%
                   Benching: expanded metal Ro-Flo and Benchmaster

Growth Chambers: BioChambers and Conviron

Headhouse spaces:
Potting room
Bulk Storage area

The referenced media source is missing and needs to be re-embedded.

Pesticide Storage room
Cold Storage
Insectary
Quarantine Facility
Corn sorting and storage
Research Lab
Undergraduate Teaching Lab
Offices