Our 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.
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Cannabis Construction Consulting
Cannabis Cultivation Consulting
Cannabis Extraction Consulting
Extraction facilities face high levels of scrutiny during permitting due to the volatile solvents and compounds that are often used in processing. Safety concerns about equipment, storage, and how the solvents are used need to be addressed to get your facility built and operational. Expert advice can help you get there faster and with fewer headaches along the way, and CE+C can support – learn more in our blog about cannabis extraction consulting.
Cultivation Facility Consulting
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.
Cannabis Compliance Consulting
Although cannabis has been legal in some states for nearly three decades, it’s still a young commercial industry. Regulations vary widely between jurisdictions, with no federal standardization in sight. This can make complying with standards and regulations a huge headache for the cannabis entrepreneur. Regulations abound in the areas of finance and banking, licensing, production, tracking, and safety. You can hire consultants to help you navigate through the emerging and changeable regulatory landscapes that relate to just about every area of your business. Learn more about how cannabis compliance consultants can help.
Cannabis Construction Consulting
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.
When to Engage a Cannabis Consultant
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.
Cannabis Consulting for Grow, Extraction, and Dispensary Facilities
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.
How CE+C Can Help You
We’ve been in this industry longer than most consultants. Our first projects were in California in 2016, when recreational marijuana was first legalized. Since then, we’ve completed about 70 projects in areas ranging from coast to coast. Additionally, we’re backed by the resources of a parent company of nearly 50 people, founded in 1985. We will help you with mechanical, plumbing, HVAC, power, access, security, and life safety systems designs. We offer a wide variety of auxiliary services as well – see our services page for a comprehensive list of our services.
If you already have relationships with industry professionals, you’ll be happy to know that we are great at working as part of interdisciplinary teams and actively enjoy the collaborative aspects of working with other consultants as well as our clients. Whether we’re leading the project or working as a subconsultant, you can rely on us to put your priorities first and see our work matches your stated goals. Our cannabis consultant staff have industry experience as well as extensive backgrounds in designing facilities for other industries. This means you get the best of both worlds, cannabis expertise combined with best practices from other, more established industries.
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Cannabis Facility Consulting Project Portfolio
We’ve helped more than 60 cannabis facilities to get up, running, and compliant through cannabis consulting. Here are a few of the most recent.