Another 'hot topic' from February 2016, was the assignment for KUBO to build solar energy greenhouses for the oil industry in the desert of Oman. Once complete, the project (called Miraah, Arabic for mirror) will span a total of some 190 ha across the desert oilfield, making it the biggest solar project in the world.
February 2016 was also the month that Belgian start-up Urban Crops opened the largest automated plant factory in Europe. We visited the huge automated plant factory that is built as a climate chamber with a completely closed controllable environment; only a robot has access to the crates in which small seedlings are raised to fully grown crops.