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Resource Innovation Institute seeks advice on USDA funded best practices guidance for CEA producers

Resource Innovation Institute (RII) is currently recruiting for the following Technical Advisory Council working groups to support our USDA project titled Data-Driven Market Transformation for Efficient, Sustainable Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA). RII is a non-profit organization whose mission is to measure, verify and celebrate the world’s most efficient agricultural ideas. RII’s Technical Advisory Council is the leading multidisciplinary body aggregating knowledge to support producers and other stakeholders with objective, peer-reviewed data, and curriculum on CEA resource efficiency and productivity. 

Working group members will advise on the development of CEA Best Practices Guides that will be distributed by USDA, thereby providing recognition for contributing organizations.

Facility Design & Construction - Architecture, Construction (mechanical and electrical contractors, equipment distributors, controls contractors), Engineering (mechanical and electrical, lighting designers), Manufacturing (greenhouse, HVAC, lighting controls), Energy supply (electric, gas microgrid, renewables, back-up, battery storage, energy as a service), Commissioning (mechanical, envelope), Design Review Boards, Cultivation. 

Lighting - Engineering, Manufacturing, Cultivation, Controls & Automation, Research. 

HVAC - Engineering, Manufacturing, Cultivation, Controls & Automation, Research.

Irrigation & Water Reuse - Engineering, Manufacturing, Controls & Automation, Research.

Market actors are welcome to join global category companies like Grodan, Fluence, Priva, Schneider Electric, Svensson, Signify, and others in bringing peer-reviewed guidance on resource-efficient cultivation practices to CEA producers. 

Participants will be expected to:
Commit to 4-8 well-facilitated, enjoyable one-hour meetings over a compressed period of roughly 3-4 months + ~2 hours of peer review on their own time. Willing to provide required matching funds.

For more information on the Technical Advisory Council Working Groups, please visit: https://resourceinnovation.org/tac/  

Qualified parties are encouraged to express interest by Oct. 11 to Hamza Bahri, Communications & Community Manager, at [email protected]. Please include qualifications, references, and relevant project information. 

For more information:
Resource Innovation Center
www.resourceinnovation.org 

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