Cannabis Consultant Services

We have more than 70 cannabis projects in our portfolio, as well as thousands of more traditional projects at our parent company. Let us help you:

• design for climate, plumbing, life safety, power, lighting, and security
• choose, maintain, and upgrade your equipment and facility
• support the building permitting process and manage your construction project
• design and optimize grow, processing, extraction, and dispensary facilities.

For your indoor grow facility, you may want to talk to someone who is an expert on things like climate control, lighting, energy-efficiency, and dust collection – we can provide these services for your grow facility. You may also want to talk to consultants that specialize in choosing commercial strains that suit your business needs, or brokers to sell your product on the processing market. CE+C provides cultivation facility consulting services to support your grow facility.

Construction consultants can help keep your project on track by managing the interdisciplinary teams that it takes to bring a facility into being. They will help you manage timelines, cost-control, and important milestones, freeing you up to focus on the nuts and bolts of getting your enterprise ready to open for business. Read our blog on the topic for more details about cannabis construction consulting.

The short answer is, “the earlier the better!” A longer answer would be to outline some of the reasons you might want to bring consultants in from the beginning. We could write quite a few sad stories about entrepreneurs who wish they had brought in an expert earlier. One of our clients spent a significant portion of their funding on equipment that seemed like a great deal, but which unfortunately would never pass a permitting inspection. Another client signed a lease for a facility where a cannabis processing operation was specifically prohibited. These cautionary tales illustrate why it’s a good idea to bring your experts in at the beginning. If you’re thinking about starting a cannabis facility or getting some work done on your existing facility, don’t hesitate to contact us.

All cannabis facilities will have common needs for compliance, security, and safety; while your business has specific needs based on your facility’s function, location, and stage of development. Grow facilities may need specialists for lighting, CO2-enrichment, or climate control whereas a processing and extraction facility’s needs may be more focused on fire protection, life-safety, and permitting. Your location will determine precisely which regulations apply, because laws vary from state to state, and even by more local jurisdiction. (NFPA 420 standards, which were released for public comment in June 2024, will help to create more clarity on issues pertaining to fire protection.) If you’re just breaking ground on new construction, your needs will be different than if you’re leasing and building out an existing structure. Fortunately, there are consultants like us that can help you with all of this and more.