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Each case study follows the same structure so you can compare decisions rather than marketing claims.
Every greenhouse project starts from a commercial objective, not a product. A retail supply contract, an export price window and a premium fresh segment each lead to a different structure, different climate equipment and a different capital budget — even for the same crop. Each case study therefore opens with the customer objective and the site constraints before any technology is mentioned.
The challenge section lists the constraints that ruled options out. These are the details that decide a specification: design snow load, summer wet-bulb temperature, feed water sodium, heating season length, pest pressure from neighbouring farms. When a greenhouse underperforms, it is almost always because one of these was not checked before the structure was ordered.
The technology selection table then records what was chosen and why. Reading the reason column across several projects is the fastest way to understand why two greenhouses that look similar can differ by a factor of five in capital cost per square metre.